From mcunha at ipca.pt Sun Nov 1 18:34:57 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 23:34:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations *** Last days to submit your paper / exetended abstract *** Portugal, November 18-20 Message-ID: <201511012334.tA1NYvwN001848@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ViNOrg 2015 Fourth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools November 18-20, 2015 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ vinorg at 2100projects.org *** Last days to submit your paper / extended abstract *** Submission deadline: November 10, 2015 *** Acceptance Notification: until one week after each submission Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fourth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ Full paper or abstract online submission can be done at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/submissionguide.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Nov 2 10:00:37 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:00:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Int Conf on Virtual and Networked Organizations *** submission deadline (extended abstract or full paper): Nov 5, 2015 *** Portugal, November 18-20 Message-ID: <201511021500.tA2F0aHA023833@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ViNOrg 2015 Fourth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools November 18-20, 2015 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ vinorg at 2100projects.org *** Full Paper or Extended Abstract submission deadline: November 10, 2015 (final full paper due after the conference, post-proceedings) *** Acceptance Notification: until one week after each submission Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fourth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ Full paper or abstract online submission can be done at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/submissionguide.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From mcunha at ipca.pt Mon Nov 2 10:01:19 2015 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:01:19 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Int Conf on Virtual and Networked Organizations *** submission deadline (extended abstract or full paper): Nov 5, 2015 *** Portugal, November 18-20 Message-ID: <201511021501.tA2F1IG8024031@mail.asis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ViNOrg 2015 Fourth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools November 18-20, 2015 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ vinorg at 2100projects.org *** Full Paper or Extended Abstract submission deadline: November 10, 2015 (final full paper due after the conference, post-proceedings) *** Acceptance Notification: until one week after each submission Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fourth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/ Full paper or abstract online submission can be done at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg15/submissionguide.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From jaeschke at l3s.de Mon Nov 2 03:20:08 2015 From: jaeschke at l3s.de (=?UTF-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IErDpHNjaGtl?=) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:20:08 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: Special Issue on Mining Social Semantics on the Social Web Message-ID: <56371CB8.8010604@l3s.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Call for papers: Special Issue on Mining Social Semantics on the Social Web In recent years the amount of data available on the social web has grown massively. Consequently, researchers have developed approaches that leverage this social web data to tackle interesting challenges of the semantic web. Among them are methods for learning ontologies from social media or crowdsourcing, extracting semantics from data collected by citizen science and participatory sensing initiatives, or for better understanding and describing user activities. The rich data provided by the social web can be used to learn and construct the semantic web. This can be facilitated by learning basic semantic relationships, e.g., between entities, or by employing more sophisticated methods that are able to construct a complete knowledge graph or ontology. Other methods enrich content from the social web and link it to the semantic web. The proposed special issue is open to all submissions that utilize data from the social web a) with the help of semantic web technologies, b) for inferring and extracting semantics, or c) for enriching and linking content with/to the semantic web or existing knowledge structures like the linked open data cloud. Any kind of data can be utilized as long as it has a connection with the social web, e.g., tags from Flickr, tweets from Twitter, check-ins from Foursquare, articles from Wikipedia, shared mobile sensor data, data from participatory mapping, crowd-sourced data, etc. Examples include approaches for inferring the semantics of tags, extracting semantics from Wikipedia articles, or enriching tweets with named entities. The resulting knowledge can be integrated into structures like the linked open data cloud. == Topics of Interest == We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: - - linked open data and the social web - - machine learning for the semantic web on social web data - - semantic enrichment (e.g., sentiment detection, polarity, named entity recognition, ...) of user-generated texts (e.g., Wikipedia articles, tweets, blogs, ?) - - extraction and modelling of arguments and discourse - - never-ending language learning from user-generated content - - ontology learning from user-generated content - - semantics of social tagging (e.g., inferring semantics of tags, identifying relationships between tags, learning ontologies from tags, ...) - - mining Wikipedia (e.g., extracting semantics from articles, semantic enrichment of articles, inter-language analyses, mining the Wikipedia category graph, ...) - - temporal and spatial semantics of content from the social web - - inferring semantics from user data, usage logs, mobile sensing, ... - - extracting location-based semantics from Foursquare, OpenStreetMap, ... - - leveraging crowd-sourcing for the semantic web - - capturing the semantics of user interactions - - inferring semantics from user data and usage logs == Submissions == 31 January 2016 - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the special issue on Mining Semantics in/from the Social Web. Submissions are possible as full research papers or surveys. While there is no upper limit, the paper length must be justified by content. == Important Dates == - - Call for papers: September 2015 - - Submission deadline: 31 January 2016 - - Notification: 31 March 2016 == Guest editors == Please use the e-mail address social-semantic-issue at l3s.de for inquiries. - - Andreas Hotho, University of W?rzburg, Germany - - Robert J?schke, L3S Research Center, Germany - - Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, United States - -- Prof. Dr. Robert J?schke L3S Research Center/Leibniz University Hannover http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/ +49-(0)511-762-17775 <<<<< please participate: http://researchersontwitter.appspot.com/ >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWNxy4AAoJEPZY2c/EvlKY8osQALZlVb0Kv1PvRbXUu/1TrJXl fXNfsAGedA2ftDq3qfCTDW8JiQsb4MajioQW+sppZCL+vxXjtve1y6vKtWdyhq1s 1HdYDd+Qq8hzY74SDyruZwO0UUhS+RoMW5FMLd/WLM1nIx7RDYGS+pZUU6IWySiE NLS70MxV1TFwyB7q6viIa2g9rCOcQB+APLzzNuwnosCtpZrz2woTtaRU+rWZmZNx 202MpJVbQpGU2EH49tU98ld4F1CK35hnjsGz2YefszTuPd6NWN+JjKzd/4EoUway 7yi2xsiOlLzG9K9uzphvKr7+SDjKX75tsdgXEuluxdPGa55ZUKi+cmhBHAlcyKtR PSsAagQl7HLM2J3r7fvD6CBMRGtaLU6CZMG7rNmuHrD+99HMS9xtI1GD+FYvBtDM LmsUg4FPKpBKPwLFvXacKIZur0V3VOjasxSxU/ZFPcNkhOJguBrbWu2wLt1BfoRK aU6DvswssEY/pe9tn+fFNmBSVxZRl20Iq0mVIfWhxcGyK2bPBlc6/Yz/UVKvVXbp CLDK0+UehtOkKoV7pbzTLElMhrn93DLHvokyFPDr5SDxEmylbWgj/Un+VfWuaShB 4cp5D/qf5AGIEOXAzKQLlef6gOv4w1tBe0ebRWhErU5pDIZIcTLRafuQFho+J+8b SmOLrZctGgv6wmnCYFxW =e095 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Nov 2 12:50:26 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:50:26 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Free NISO Webinar on Altmetrics November 16 Message-ID: *November 16 Webinar: Research Data Metrics Landscape (NISO Working Group Connections LIVE!)* In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. The NISO Altmetrics Project has successfully moved to Phase Two, the formation of three working groups, A, B, & C. Working Group B, led by Kristi Holmes, PhD, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University, and Mike Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Informetrics at Elsevier, is focused on the Output Types & Identifiers within the alternative metrics landscape. Speakers participating in this free event, to be held on November 16 from 11 am to 1 pm (ET) will highlight examples of the work being done in this area: ? BioCADDIE - Peter McQuilton, Knowledge Engineer/Senior Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre, University Of Oxford; Philippe Rocca-Serra, Technical Project Leader, Oxford e-Research Centre, University Of Oxford ? ORCID - Tom Demeranville, THOR Senior Project Officer & ORCiD Software Engineer ? Data-Level Metrics with DataCite - Martin Fenner, Technical Director, DataCite ? Bibliometrics for Data ? what counts and what doesn?t? - Dr. Sarah Callaghan, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, British Atmospheric Data Centre ? FORCE 11 Attribution: Getting (and giving) credit for all that we do - Dr. Melissa Haendel, Associate Professor, Ontology Development Group, OHSU Library, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University ? NISO Working Group ?B? - Kristi Holmes, PhD, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University; Mike Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Informetrics, Elsevier For more information and to register for this free event, visit the event webpage . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dania Bilal, Interim Director & Professor School of Information Sciences College of Communication and Information University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park, COM 451, Office 446 Knoxville, TN 37996 (865) 974-3689 dania at utk.edu http://scholar.cci.utk.edu/dania-bilal ________________________________________ From: Siguse-l on behalf of Given, Lisa Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 10:29 AM To: siguse-l at asis.org; asis-l at asis.org Subject: [Siguse-l] Announcing Sig-USE Award for Outstanding Contribution to IB Dear ASIS&T and SIG USE Colleagues, It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Sanda Erdelez has been chosen as the 2015 ASIS&T SIG USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research. Dr. Erdelez's work on opportunistic discovery of information has had an ongoing and significant impact in the field of information behaviour research. Her Information Encountering Model is highly cited and has changed how we think about incidental information acquisition. Her contributions to the SIG USE Symposium on theoretical frameworks, followed by her role as co-editor (with Karen Fisher and Lynne McKechnie) of the book Theories of Information Behavior, has had a remarkable influence on information behavior research. The founding Director of the Information Experience Lab at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri, Dr. Erdelez is now Chair of the Library and Information Science Program. Dr. Erdelez has worked on research projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Dell Corporation and Southwest Bell. We are pleased to honor Dr. Erdelez with the 2015 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award. As a recipient of this Award, Dr. Erdelez will also be inducted into the ASIS&T SIG USE Academy of Fellows. Dr. Erdelez will be accepting the Award at the upcoming SIG USE Symposium, which will be held on Saturday November 7 1:30-6:30pm (see https://siguse.wordpress.com/). Please join me in congratulating Dr. Erdelez on this significant achievement! Cheers, Lisa SIG USE Chair Lisa M. Given, PhD Professor of Information Studies | School of Information Studies Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Education Member, Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning & Education (RIPPLE) Faculty of Education Charles Sturt University Locked Bag 588 Wagga Wagga NSW 2678 Australia Phone: +61 02 6933 4092 Fax: +61 02 6933 2733 Email: lgiven at csu.edu.au Web: lisagiven.com [Charles Sturt University] | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | ________________________________ LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. 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From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Mon Nov 2 13:14:42 2015 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:14:42 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST 2015 - Two Faculty Positions at University of British Columbia Message-ID: <17739d59-bf5e-4954-9094-e187645ea79c@S-ITSV-HUB04P.ead.ubc.ca> Members of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (the iSchool at UBC) will be attending the ASIST 2015 meeting would be pleased to meet with candidates interested in either of our recently advertised faculty positions - in Information and Media Studies and Archival Science. Full descriptions of the position are available from our website (http://slais.ubc.ca/people/employment-at-slais-the-ischool-ubc/) and from the ASIST Job Placement Centre. If you would like to schedule a meeting during the conference, please contact me or drop by the UBC iSchool table (luanne.freund at ubc.ca). Sincerely Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director The iSchool, University of British Columbia luanne.freund at ubc.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Mon Nov 2 12:50:02 2015 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:50:02 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Tenure Track position in Information and Media Studies Message-ID: <84ea2107-98a4-4409-93cc-f9f6b360ce81@S-ITSV-HUB01P.ead.ubc.ca> THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Faculty Position (tenure-stream) - Information and Media Studies The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), invites applications for a full-time position to begin July 1, 2016. The position is expected to be filled at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates should demonstrate achievement of, or potential for, excellence in teaching, research, and service in an interdisciplinary environment. The position is subject to final budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and conduct research in the area of information and media studies, broadly interpreted. Applications are encouraged from candidates with research and teaching interests in areas including: media studies, Internet research, online communities, social media, digital media and design, social computing, information policy, scholarly communication, and the social impact of ICTs. Primary teaching responsibilities will be in the Bachelor of Media Studies (BMS) and the Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) programs. These high quality professionally oriented programs engage innovative and creative teaching practices and offer the chance to work with outstanding students. This position offers candidates the opportunity to contribute to the development of information and media studies as an area of strength within the iSchool and UBC, and to join a dynamic community of scholars shaping the future of the iSchool. Applicants must: ? hold a Ph.D. (or provide evidence of imminent completion) in the field of information and media studies from an iSchool or equivalent institution ? demonstrate excellence in research and scholarly activity appropriate to their experience ? have some experience conducting collaborative and multidisciplinary research, preferably in an iSchool or Library and Information Studies (LIS) context ? possess a willingness to assume a future leadership role in teaching and/or research ? demonstrate a commitment to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels ? show a capacity to innovate in technology-enriched and community-engaged educational settings ? demonstrate intercultural understanding and openness to diverse perspectives and experiences UBC has an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, one of the world?s most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The iSchool, a unit within the Faculty of Arts, offers a Ph.D. program and Master?s programs in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) and Archival Studies (MAS), with both Master?s programs offering an optional First Nations specialization. The iSchool also offers an interdisciplinary MA in Children?s Literature (MACL) program and is a charter participant in the new multidisciplinary Bachelor of Media Studies program. Further information about the iSchool can be found at www.slais.ubc.ca. The closing date for all applications is January 8, 2016 Application materials must include: a cover letter stating the candidate?s qualifications for the position and projected research agenda; a current curriculum vitae; and a teaching portfolio of no more than 5 pages, including a statement of teaching philosophy and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applications should be addressed to Dr. Luanne Freund, Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee and documents should be sent as separate files (in .pdf or Word format) via email to: ischool.recruit at ubc.ca. Applicants should arrange to have at least 3 referees send confidential letters of reference to the Faculty Search Committee Co-Chair at ischool.recruit at ubc.ca prior to the closing date. Enquiries may be addressed to Dr. Luanne Freund, Associate Professor and Acting Director, and Co-Chair of the Faculty Search Committee via email to: luanne.freund at ubc.ca. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Mon Nov 2 12:56:06 2015 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:56:06 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Tenure Track Position in Archival Science Message-ID: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Faculty Position (tenure-stream) -- Archival Science The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), the iSchool at The University of British Columbia (UBC), invites applications for a full-time position to begin July 1, 2016. The position is expected to be filled at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates should demonstrate achievement of, or potential for, excellence in teaching, research, and service in an interdisciplinary environment. The position is subject to final budgetary approval. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and conduct research in archival science, specifically in the areas of archival theory and methods of arrangement, description, access and retrieval. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with archival expertise and an interest in cultural informatics--broadly defined as the application of technology to the identification, documentation, preservation and dissemination of cultural materials. Other areas of specialization that are of interest include: archival history and the archival system; community and personal archives; digital culture, cultural heritage informatics, multi-media materials, and Indigenous cultural materials and archives. Primary teaching responsibilities will be in the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) program, with opportunities to teach across iSchool programs and collaboratively within the Faculty of Arts. This position offers candidates the opportunity to build upon a long tradition of excellence in archival research and education by establishing a strengthened focus on cultural records, digital culture and cultural informatics within the iSchool, the Faculty of Arts and UBC. The successful applicant will join a dynamic community of outstanding graduate students and scholars working together to shape the future of the iSchool. Applicants must: ? hold a Ph.D. (or provide evidence of imminent completion) from an iSchool or equivalent institution ? demonstrate expertise in archival science by holding an advanced archival studies degree or substantial professional experience as an archivist ? possess excellent teaching abilities and a commitment to teaching at the graduate level ? show a capacity to innovate in technology-enriched and community-engaged educational settings ? demonstrate intercultural understanding and openness to diverse perspectives and experiences ? demonstrate excellence in research and scholarly activity appropriate to their experience ? possess a willingness to assume a future leadership role in teaching and/or research UBC has an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, one of the world?s most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. The iSchool at UBC, a unit within the Faculty of Arts, offers a Ph.D. program, Master?s programs in Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Archival Studies (MAS), with both Master?s programs offering an optional First Nations specialization, and a MAS/MLIS Dual Program. It also offers an interdisciplinary MA in Children?s Literature (MACL) program and is a charter participant in the new multidisciplinary Bachelor of Media Studies program. The Faculty of Arts is home to over 20 academic units in addition to several outstanding cultural institutions, among them the Museum of Anthropology and the Belkin Art Gallery, making this an exceptional environment in which to study archives and cultural informatics. Further information about SLAIS, the iSchool at UBC can be found at http://slais.ubc.ca/ The closing date for all applications is January 8, 2016. Application materials must include: a cover letter stating the candidate?s qualifications for the position and projected research agenda; a current curriculum vitae; and a teaching portfolio of no more than 5 pages, including a statement of teaching philosophy and evidence of potential for teaching effectiveness. Applications should be addressed to Dr. Luanne Freund, Chair, Faculty Search Committee and documents should be sent as separate files (in PDF or Word format) via email to: ischool.recruit at ubc.ca. Applicants should arrange to have at least 3 referees send confidential letters of reference to the Faculty Search Committee Chair at ischool.recruit at ubc.ca prior to the closing date. Enquiries may be addressed to Dr. Luanne Freund, Associate Professor and Acting Director, and Chair of the Faculty Search Committee via email to: luanne.freund at ubc.ca. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director The iSchool, University of British Columbia luanne.freund at ubc.ca From amickle at whoi.edu Mon Nov 2 13:39:50 2015 From: amickle at whoi.edu (Audrey Mickle) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:39:50 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Systems Librarian Message-ID: <5637ADF6.3040407@whoi.edu> **Please excuse any cross-posting** ------------------------------------- The Data Library and Archives at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is looking for an Information Systems Associate II/III ? Systems Librarian to join their team. This is a regular, full-time position and is eligible for benefits. POSITION: Information Systems Associate II/III ? Systems Librarian COMPANY: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) APPLY AT: _http://www.whoi.edu/jobs_ JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Director of Library Services at WHOI/Co-Director of the MBL WHOI Library, the Systems Librarian provides technical expertise, day-to-day administration, and support for traditional and emerging library software solutions and standards. SPECIFIC DUTIES: * Utilizes technologies to provide the best possible experience for library patrons and staff as they search and access the information in our library systems with a focus on the integrated library system, Voyager. * Supports/maintains computers in the Library offices, * Collaborates with the Data Librarian and Institution Archivist to support access to Institution data collections and new initiatives. * Serves as back-up to Data Librarian as necessary. PREVIOUS EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE DESIRED: * Master?s Degree in library, information, or computer science with some experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in computing and information service. * Prefers experience with an integrated library system, as well as experience supporting other library specific software. * Other preferred experience includes Drupal, and knowledge of metadata standards such as MARC and Dublin Core * Good communication and interpersonal skills are required SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: * Must be able to obtain and maintain a TWIC Transportation Worker Identification Credential PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Physical duties for this position include but are not limited to lifting shoulder to knee, knee to floor, between 25-50 lbs of weight occasionally; carrying under 50 lbs. Visual abilities include depth perception, ability to see peripherally, ability to adjust vision to bring objects into focus, ability to distinguish basic colors. Conversational hearing abilities are required. Other physical tasks include mostly sedentary work, occasional/prolonged standing/walking, use of hands for basic grasping/manipulation, use of hands for fine manipulation, occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching. May be exposed to dust or other irritants. Physical duties are subject to change. /WHOI is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC). We are sensitive to the issues of dual career candidates and we will work with applicants to address them. Please visit HERC - for more information./ ///WHOI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans/M/F. We encourage Veterans and those with Disabilities to apply. Applications are reviewed confidentially. / //Applicants that require accommodation in the job application process are encouraged to contact us at (508) 289-2253 or email eeo at whoi.edu for assistance. ------------------------------------- -- Thank You, Audrey Mickle Data Library and Archives Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution amickle at whoi.edu http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-8810 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Mon Nov 2 15:50:20 2015 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:50:20 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Director of Library Services / Southern, CA Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C3615B24BB2@ex1mbx02.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group is seeking a Temp/Contractor Director of Library Services for a public library in Southern California. The Director of Library Services plans, organizes and coordinates a comprehensive library and information management program for library, local history and digital content collections for patrons, community organizations and other departments; and provides long-range strategic direction for the continuous development of collections, programs and services. RESPONSIBILITIES * Develops, plans, forecasts, coordinates, evaluates, and administers programs for collection development, library programs, and local history. * Serve as the liaison and staff support to the Library Board of Trustees. Prepare agendas, minutes and reports. * Prepare and present verbal and written reports to governmental agencies and community groups. * Develop community knowledge and build partnerships and coalitions that will identify the Department as a community focal point. * Engage in strategic thinking to develop and implement goals, objectives, policies and priorities for Library Service programs that will foster lifelong learning; literacy; participation in government; collaborations and partnerships with local schools and experts; understanding of local history and community identity. * Research trends, demographics and assess community needs, program changes and resulting needs to plan strategically for the future. * Integrates outcomes into plans for services and programs to continuously monitor and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of programs and services, and delivery methods. * Provide advisory support and act as liaison to other Departments, citizen committees, community agencies and schools to facilitate the public library programs and services. * Prepares, manages, implement and monitors Department budget and prudently allocate resources to accomplish program goals and services. * Maintain a customer service philosophy and respond to citizen inquiries and resolve difficult or controversial issues. * Disseminate and manage public access to physical and digital copies of official reports, maps and other current and historical documents. * Monitor and manage website including contract for technical support. * Facilitate and monitor services, licenses and contracts for databases, vendors, electronic books, and document preservation. * Write, administer and coordinate the development of grants, corporate sponsorships, donations and other fund raising programs to fund services, programs and capital improvements. * Provide recommendations regarding facility needs and set priorities for facility development based on community input and staff analysis. Assist with coordination of capital improvement projects with the other departments when necessary. * Prepare, implement and monitor master and strategic plans for requisite areas of responsibility. * Assist with coordinating services for fundraising events QUALIFICATIONS * MLIS degree in Library and Information Management or equivalent; * At least five years of related leadership experience in public administration including collection development, reference, cataloging, public programing or related fields including one year of managerial level expertise, or any equivalent of training and experience which provides the required skills, * Knowledge of methods, practices and techniques in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the delivery of library services to a community as well as considerable knowledge of managing digital content. * Current American Red Cross certificate in First Aid/CPR/AED for Schools and the Community or obtain within three months of employment. 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Today, with the fast advance of big data science, analytics and technology, big data researchers and application professionals are able to access to diverse data mining and machine learning algorithms, open-source platforms & tools, and cloud DB technology and big data access technologies. Unlike the other venues, this international conference is established to address the above needs for big data computing service researchers, domain-specific researchers, government agencies, and practitioners. The major objective is to provide a big platform for them to exchange innovation ideas and research results, and share application experiences and lessons. The three major objectives of this conference include: - *Big Data Innovation *of big data computing and service models, theories, tools, solutions and technologies. - *Big Data and Service Sharing* in big data banks and resources, portals, platforms, and open-sources, technology and tools. - *Big Data Application *in real world big data application service projects for major application domains, including energy and environment, medical and healthcare, library, social media and networking, and education. In particular, please consider submitting to the "*Big Data Information Banking*" track, which is specifically designed for the library and information science field. This track includes the papers focusing on big data-related research in library and information science, including big data information banking projects, policies, standards, business services & cost models, data sharing, exchange & management, data-intensive computing and services, data classification/indexing, retrieval, storage & search solutions for digital libraries, and supporting infrastructures. This conference will include a three-day program with a well-defined track program, plus a number of invited keynote speeches from well-known speakers from the real world. For more information, please see the following site: http://www.big-dataservice.net/ We look forward to your contribution and to seeing you soon in the near future. 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While the call for papers closed in May, there are still multiple opportunities to submit research and participate in CSCW 2016! *Posters* http://cscw.acm.org/2016/submit/posters.php cscw2016posters at acm.org CSCW 2016 will include an interactive poster category for late-breaking and preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a full or short paper, contributions by collaborative (inter-)national research projects, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, early student research, and other research best presented in an interactive forum. *Panels* http://cscw.acm.org/2016/submit/panels.php cscw2016panels at acm.org Great panels are an excellent way to generate debate, raise new and interesting issues at CSCW, and hear multiple points of view on a given topic. CSCW panels are a forum for discussing provocative, controversial, innovative, emerging, boundary spanning and boundary-breaking issues. While paper sessions provide detailed discussions of work recently completed, panels provide an opportunity to hear from research leaders about what is on the horizon ? or what is already here but not yet recognized, acknowledged or discussed. *Doctoral Colloquium* http://cscw.acm.org/2016/submit/dc.php cscw2016doctoral at acm.org The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW researchers and practitioners. The colloquium itself will begin with dinner Saturday night February 27, 2016 and continue all day Sunday February 28, 2016. *Demos* http://cscw.acm.org/2016/submit/demos.php cscw2016demos at acm.org CSCW 2016 demonstrations present implementations of new CSCW systems and concepts. The curated demonstrations allow conference participants to view novel and noteworthy CSCW systems in action, discuss the systems with those who created them, and try them out. Appropriate demonstrations include applications, technologies, and research prototypes, and may showcase work that has been or is being published at CSCW or elsewhere. Demonstrations can also serve to showcase novel commercial products not previously described in the research literature. *Telepresence *(1 December 2015 deadline) http://cscw.acm.org/2016/attend/telepresence.php cscw2016telepresence at acm.org This year at CSCW we will be allowing a small number of people to attend remotely using telepresence technology. The goal is to provide people who cannot attend CSCW in person with an alternative means for conference attendance. For example, we are hoping to provide those with mobility impairments, chronic health issues, or temporary travel limitations with opportunities to attend the conference from remote locations. Currently remote attendance is still at an exploratory stage, so we can only accommodate a small number of remote attendees. 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(301) 495-0810 From will.buntin at uky.edu Tue Nov 3 13:09:11 2015 From: will.buntin at uky.edu (Will Buntin) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:09:11 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Kentucky Hiring 2 ICT Faculty, ASIS&T 2015 Message-ID: The School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky is seeking qualified candidates for two available Assistant Professor positions in the Information Communication Technology program. Teaching and research responsibilities include one or more areas in information communication technology such as social computing, social informatics, information studies, information science, instructional communication. Preference will be given to candidates with an information communication technology background and an interest in training and instruction in applied settings. Please see the pdf document for information regarding the position, deadlines, and how to apply. The review process will begin December 1, 2015. If you would like to speak to someone at the ASIS&T conference about the position, please feel free to stop by our School booth or email Search Committee member Dr. Sean Burns at sean.burns at uky.edu Will Buntin Assistant Director Administration and Enrollment Planning School of Information Science University of Kentucky 319 Little Library Building Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0224 * Follow UK Information Science: Facebook * Twitter * YouTube * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 13:51:37 2015 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:51:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Last Call for Papers - WorldCIST'2016 - Deadline: November 15, 2015 Message-ID: <201511031851.tA3Ippc3020197@mail.asis.org> -- ---- Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email, or if its content is irrelevant for you. ------ Please forward for your contacts. Thank you so much! ---- -- --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies ( http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ), to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 15, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From mccay at dal.ca Tue Nov 3 14:26:48 2015 From: mccay at dal.ca (Lori McCay-Peet) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:26:48 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP SEADE-CHIIR Workshop on Serendipity In-Reply-To: References: <867E7B51-CAD3-4C8C-AB43-561E6006AEF3@dal.ca> <8219CA48-A40E-437E-B69C-18F84C736D01@dal.ca> Message-ID: Call for Papers (CFP): The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments SEADE (pronounced ?seed?) Workshop at CHIIR 2016 (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) http://sigir.org/chiir2016/ March 17, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States For two decades, research has sought to understand serendipity and how it may be facilitated in digital environments such as information visualization systems, search systems, and social media. The motivation for investigating serendipity comes from its association with positive outcomes that range from personal benefits to global rewards. To date, research has made significant headway in defining and mapping the process of serendipity and new tools are emerging to support it. But we lack robust methods of evaluating new or enhanced features, functions, and tools. The goal of the Workshop is to examine how we balance the tension between diversity and novelty in designing digital environments and subsequently how we evaluate the ?serendipitousness? of those environments. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (e.g., information science, HCI, digital humanities, cognitive science) and research perspectives to help us solve this wicked problem. How to participate Submit a 2-page paper using the ACM SIG Proceedings Template about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to serendipity, either published, or work in progress. Possible themes for these papers may include, but are not limited to: Evaluating whether or how digital environments enableserendipity 1. Use of qualitative methods such as interviews and think-aloud to evaluate user perceptions 2. Modifications to quantitative evaluation methods such as controlled experiments and log file analyses to test designs 3. Identification of factors other than the environment (e.g., context, individual differences, strategies, emotions, attitudes) that influence serendipity that should be taken into consideration during evaluation Designing elements and functions in digital environments so that serendipity is facilitated 1. Application of theory and models in the design (or evaluation) of affordances related to serendipity 2. Design of serendipitous digital environments (e.g., information visualization systems, recommender systems, digital libraries, search engines) Authors of selected papers will be asked to A) give ?lightning talks? on their work through a 5-minute presentation; or B) participate in a ?show and tell event? to demonstrate their project or prototype. In addition, just prior to and during the workshop we will be conducting a whirlwind Delphi study to identify essential and novel measures for assessing ?serendipitousness.? The results of the group effort will be discussed at the Workshop to highlight pertinent measures. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop. **Submissions and inquiries can be sent to Lori McCay-Peet [mccay at dal.ca]** Important dates * Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 * Notification: December 15, 2015 * Workshop date: March 17, 2016 Conference Organizers Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, Canada Elaine G. Toms, The University of Sheffield, UK Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Program Committee Members Naresh Argawal, Simmons College, USA Jamshid Beheshti, McGill University, Canada Lennart Bj?rneborn, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri, USA Jannica Heinstr?m, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Christoph Lutz, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Stephann Makri, City University London, UK Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario, Canada Xu Sun, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China Simon Wakeling, University of Sheffield, UK ? 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The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" took place in the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. This was the fifth in a series of International UDC Seminars. The programme comprised twenty presentations and six posters. Other useful information: - Special offer for all UDC proceedings (50% discount) - order/pay online at http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=books. - Special offer on Ergon titles is available here http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/files/UDC_Seminar_2015_delegate_offer.pdf Aida Slavic Programme Chair International UDC Seminar 2015 From cglaze at illinois.edu Tue Nov 3 13:00:04 2015 From: cglaze at illinois.edu (Glaze, Christy Grant) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:00:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] GSLIS at Illinois to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2015 Message-ID: GSLIS at Illinois to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2015 GSLIS faculty and students will participate in the 78th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which will be held on November 6-10 in St. Louis. In addition to the following presentations, GSLIS will cosponsor the iSchools Alumni Reception on Tuesday, November 10, at 6:30 p.m. Papers "Learning User-Defined, Domain-Specific Relations: A Situated Case Study and Evaluation in Plant Science" Doctoral candidate Ana Lucic and Associate Professor Catherine Blake Monday, November 9, 8:30 a.m. ?Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Contextual Privacy Predicament? Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir and Hsiao-Ying Huang (Illinois Informatics Institute) Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 a.m. ?Online Privacy and Informed Consent: The Dilemma of Information Asymmetry? Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir, doctoral student April Lambert, Carol Hayes (College of Law), and Jay P. Kesan (College of Law) Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 a.m. "Patron Privacy in Jeopardy: An Analysis of the Privacy Policies of Digital Content Vendors? Doctoral student April Lambert, master?s student Michelle Parker, and Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 a.m. Panels "Standing Out in the Academic LIS Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students" Panelists include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke Monday, November 9, 3:30 p.m. "Education in the Cyberlearning Era: New Challenges, Opportunities, and Applications" Panelists include Professor Michel Twidale Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 a.m. ?Envisioning our Information Future and How to Educate for It: a Community Conversation? Panelists include Professor Linda C. Smith Tuesday, November 10, 3:30 p.m. Workshops Associate Professor Terry Weech will give a presentation titled, "Library and Information Science Education," during the workshop, ?So Who?s Managing all that Organizational Information Anyway?? The workshop is hosted by the Management and Education Special Interest Groups on Friday, November 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Posters presented during the President?s Reception, Monday, November 9, 6:30 p.m. "What's Your Epistemology?: Quiz Design as a Pedagogical Tool in Library & Information Science Education" Doctoral students Beth Strickland and Emily Lawrence ?Making Dataset Ingest Decisions: A Data Archive?s Appraisal and Selection System Implementation? Master?s student Chung-Yi Hou with Matthew Mayernik, Robert Dattore, and Steve Worley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research ?Online Question Answering Practices to Support Healthcare Data Re-use? Associate Professor Catherine Blake, Maria Souden (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs), doctoral student Caryn L. Anderson, Professor Michael Twidale, and Jenifer E. Stelmack (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) ?Significant Properties of Thematic Research Collections? Doctoral student Katrina Fenlon ?Mapping Significance Properties in OAIS: A Case Study with Video Games? Doctoral candidate Rhiannon Bettivia ?Building Data Expertise into Research Institutions: Preliminary Results? Doctoral candidate Cheryl Annette Thompson ________________________________ Christy Glaze, MLS Visiting Communications Coordinator GSLIS: The iSchool at Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Tue Nov 3 13:29:18 2015 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:29:18 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Kent State University School of Library and Information Science at ASIS&T 2015 Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate posts Several Kent State University School of Library and Information Science faculty and alumni will be presenting at the 2015 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in St. Louis, Mo. In addition to attending these sessions, we hope that you will stop by and visit us at the Alumni Reception on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Presentations and poster sessions by faculty and alumni Pre-conference SLIS alumna Virginia Dressler, M.A., M.L.I.S. '07, will be presenting at a preconference event for SIG-MET: "Beyond Google Analytics: Using the 'Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources' to embed metrics and gauge use of regional digital collections." Dressler is digital projects librarian for Kent State University Libraries. Saturday, Nov. 7 SiG/CR workshop, Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research: SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., will be presenting "Participatory Systems of Knowledge Representation and Organization" at 11:30 a.m. 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research (SIG/SI): SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., coordinated the review process for this year's symposium and is the SIG SI secretary. Last year, he was one of the recipients of the ASIST New Leaders Award. Monday, Nov. 9, at 3:30 p.m. Panel: "If You Build It, Will They Come?" A Discussion of Use Cases and Barriers of Using the Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) Available as Linked Open Data (LOD) SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., organized this panel and will be presenting "New Functions of LOD KOS Beyond 'Value Vocabularies' and Barriers in the Current Practices of Using Them." The panel includes Marjorie Hlava (President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., Albuquerque), Joseph A. Busch (Founder and Principal Consultant of Taxonomy Strategies, Washington, D.C.) and Olga Buchel (data analyst at Counting Opinions, Canada). SLIS alumna Maja ?umer, M.L.S. '93, will moderate the discussion. Monday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. President's Reception featuring posters "Data Management and Curation Practices: The Case of Using DSpace and Implications" by SLIS Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., and Hsin-liang Chen will be presented by Hsin-liang Chen. 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URL: From Colleen.Cool at qc.cuny.edu Tue Nov 3 14:23:58 2015 From: Colleen.Cool at qc.cuny.edu (Colleen Cool) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:23:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Tenure Track Position at Queens College, CUNY In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1446578638893.24919@qc.cuny.edu> ________________________________ The Graduate School of Library & Information Studies (GSLIS) at Queens College, CUNY, seeks to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor with a strong background in technology and information services, beginning fall 2016. The GSLIS is the only publicly supported American Library Association accredited school of library and information studies in the metropolitan New York City area. The GSLIS has a large and highly diverse student body, Qualifications Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in library/information science or a related field at the time of hire. Qualified applicants must have at least one earned degree in library science or its equivalent. The successful candidate will have experience teaching in higher education and a demonstrated record or potential for research and service. Qualified candidates will have research and teaching expertise as well as practical experience in one or more of the following areas: 1. Applications of emerging technologies in libraries and other information services environments: mobile applications; social media; cloud and other collaborative environments; makerspaces. 2. Digital and data literacy: open access systems; institutional repositories management; data management and visualization; digital rights management. 3. E-resources collection development and management; ILS management; programming design and outreach services; information literacy instruction. In addition, we seek candidates who have demonstrated evidence of collaborative activity in professional or scholarly settings and who have familiarity with critical approaches to technology, including issues related to privacy, digital inclusion and ethics. Experience with assessment methods is a plus. TO APPLY If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow these instructions: - Go to www.cuny.edu and click on "Employment" - Click "Search job listings" - Click on "More options to search for CUNY jobs" - Search by Job Opening ID number 13924 - Click on the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions. Please note that candidates must upload a cover letter, Curriculum Vita, brief statement ( 500 words or less) on future directions in library/information science education and contact information for at least three references ONE DOCUMENT in any of the following formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf, or text format. Please use a simple name for the document that you upload, for example, JDoeResume. Documents with long names cannot be parsed by the application system. Informal interviews will be conducted at the ASIS&T annual meeting in St. Louis, MO and at the ALISE conference in Boston, January 2016. For additional information contact Dr. Colleen Cool, Director, GSLIS, at colleen.cool at qc.cuny.edu EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer. -- Colleen Cool, Ph.D. Professor Director and Chair Graduate School of Library & Information Studies Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, N.Y. 11367 Phone: 718 997-3790 email: ccool at qc.edu; colleen.cool at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He/she will be expected to incorporate innovative practices into plans and strategies, and collaborate with other colleges, the CUNY Administration, and outside organizations to develop appropriate policy and acquire resources. The Vice President will provide leadership to the college?s Chief Information Officer and oversee the college?s information technology operations and infrastructure. The successful candidate will lead an executive team responsible for personnel, budget, operations, and communications. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: ? Providing strategic vision and leadership in developing, implementing, and assessing direction for the Libraries and Information Technology for the college; integrating the Libraries and Information Technology with teaching, learning, and research activities at the college; championing digital literacy and e-book initiatives. ? Serving as Chief Librarian and academic chair of the Library Department. ? Establishing and implementing a vision and policies for the college?s Libraries, including setting direction for the demand-driven acquisition and use of digital resources, and the implementation of services relating to ?big data?; collaborating closely with the college?s teaching faculty and various administrative offices to develop standards, guidelines, processes and expertise to address college-wide library, digital resources, and big-data issues. ? Helping to identify sources of funding from donors, foundations, and granting agencies that can supplement state support for the various library areas and the college?s infrastructure and operations. ? Advancing the Libraries as a bridge to other academic departments to create digital collaborations where students and faculty can explore cutting-edge approaches to information technologies and data and digital services; supporting the development of curricular initiatives in the area of big data as they emerge at both undergraduate and graduate levels. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent degree, with an additional advanced degree in an academic field (Doctorate preferred); 8 or more years of progressively responsible library management including budgets and personnel, with 5 or more years in an academic or research library; and a record of scholarship, service, and professional achievement that will qualify the individual for a tenure-eligible faculty appointment. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS * Demonstrated Professional Knowledge: * Library functions, including: * assessment of library operations * strategic planning * library planning and library renovation * incorporating emerging technologies into library services and operations * Information environments, including: information science * systems and network architecture * IT governance * trends in higher education and information technologies * demonstrated high level competency with digital tools. * Demonstrated Leadership Experience * Effective capacity-building skills (collaborative fundraising, major gifts and/or grant writing) * Familiarity with a university consortium environment * Oversight and mentoring of tenured faculty * Superb communication skills through oral, written, and virtual/digital methods * Demonstrated Commitment to Diversity and Urban Education * Established record of outreach to multiple constituencies * Dedication to building a diverse faculty and staff * Working in a diverse urban setting * Significant experience and professional accomplishment in a diverse, urban institution of higher education. Compensation: This position is in CUNY?s Executive Compensation Plan. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. How to Apply: If you are viewing this job posting on any website other than CUNYfirst, please follow the instructions below: ? A complete application consists of a curriculum vitae, a letter of application that addresses the responsibilities and requirements described in the job description, and the names and contact information of five professional references. All inquiries will be treated in confidence and references will not be contacted without prior approval of candidates. ? All material must be submitted electronically via the CUNY website listed below. ? Go to www.cuny.edu and click on ?Employment? and then ?Search job listings.? ? Next, click on ?More options to search for CUNY jobs? and search by Job Opening ID #13667 ? Then click on the ?Apply Now? button and follow the instructions. 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He currently serves as an editorial board member of JASIST (since 2012) and has been an associate editor for the main information retrieval journal in computer and information science, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), for eight years (serving under two different EiCs). Mostafa now serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT) and has edited or co-edited several special issues of journals, including IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of Digital Libraries, and JASIST. As an organizer or co-organizer of several research workshops, co-located with forums such as the Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval and the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, he has conducted review, selection, publication, and publicity activities. Mostafa succeeds Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, who has been Editor-in-Chief for 7 years. Cronin is the co-Editor, with Cassidy Sugimoto, of the ASIS&T Monograph ?Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope: >From Citation Analysis to Academic Auditing,? (2016, Information Today). _______________ From tuf15651 at temple.edu Thu Nov 5 09:40:29 2015 From: tuf15651 at temple.edu (Katherine Lynch) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:40:29 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Code4Lib Call for Submissions Deadline Message-ID: The deadline for submitting a talk proposal is Monday, November 9, 2015 at midnight PST (GMT?8) ******** ** Please excuse any cross-posting ** Code4Lib 2016 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visithttp://code4lib.org/about/. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniahttp://www.sheratonphiladelphiasocietyhill.com/, from March 7-10, 2016. For information about Code4lib 2016, please visit http://2016.code4lib.org/. Proposals for Prepared Talks: We encourage everyone to propose a talk. Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas: - Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software - Tools and technologies ? How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better) - Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood - Relevant non-technical issues ? Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc. To Propose a Talk, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RaLyRyv_gHHPynDk2WIwC5JAcUiY0w8tsFq5YwEnsv4/viewform As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The top 10 proposals are guaranteed a slot at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will be guaranteed an opportunity to register for the conference. The standard conference registration fee will still apply. Proposals can be submitted through Monday, November 9, 2015 at midnight PST (GMT?8). Voting will start on November 16, 2015 and continue through December 7, 2015. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in mid-December. Thank you, The Code4Lib 2016 Program Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bs740 at scarletmail.rutgers.edu Wed Nov 4 07:02:27 2015 From: bs740 at scarletmail.rutgers.edu (Brenda Sheridan) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 07:02:27 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 Message-ID: The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 The Library & Information Science Department in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, Rutgers? iSchool, invites creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for the Ph.D. in Library and Information Sciences. Located in New Brunswick, NJ, within 90 minutes drive/train to both NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers University?s iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as: Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; and Social and Community Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Faculty have secured nearly *$20 million in grant funding* in recent years. Application deadline for Fall 2016 enrollment: *Jan. 15, 2016* Listen to a podcast recorded by RU iSchool faculty outlining program features, and learn more about the program: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html Most students admitted to the PhD program receive multiple years of funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships. The excellent funding package includes a full tuition and student fees waiver, full medical+dental coverage and a competitive yearly stipend. A colonial school, Rutgers will celebrate it?s 250th anniversary in 2016. There are 18 schools and colleges (including a medical school) on 2,688 acres across New Jersey. We are among the *top 25 public universities*, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We are an NCAA Division I School and a member of the Big Ten and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Our location in central New Jersey and close proximity to New York City makes us ideally suited for scholars exploring all types of libraries and information centers, as well as evolving information technologies and their users. For more information, contact Prof. Nick Belkin (belkin at rutgers.edu) or Prof. Marie Radford (mradford at rutgers.edu). -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communications and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lee.komito at ucd.ie Wed Nov 4 04:25:38 2015 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:25:38 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] permanent faculty positions- University College Dublin iSchool In-Reply-To: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> References: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <5639CF12.6030101@ucd.ie> Vacancy: Lecturer, Permanent Status, Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin (applications due November 30 2015) We are pleased to announce the expansion of the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. We are advertising for at least one lecturer (permanent status) position. We invite applications from scholars who can contribute to and expand our strengths in research and teaching in information and communication studies. We define the field broadly as the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures. We welcome applications from researchers with expertise in areas including but not limited to: communication and media, organisational studies, computer-supported cooperative work, information systems, information design, social computing, digital curation, cultural heritage informatics, data/information ethics, health information, metadata & classification, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, digital archives/libraries, information architecture, information literacy, and other related topics. It is anticipated that interviews will take place in the week commencing 18th January 2016. The appointed Lecturer will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2016. Details can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ (click on external positions and search for academic posts in Information and Communication Studies). Informal queries can be addressed to Kalpana Shankar (kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie) From lee.komito at ucd.ie Wed Nov 4 04:27:37 2015 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:27:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Recruiting Full Professor - University College Dublin iSchool In-Reply-To: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> References: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <5639CF89.3090506@ucd.ie> University College Dublin iSchool invites applications for Full Professor Vacancy: Professor of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin (applications due by 4 January 2016) University College Dublin is seeking to fill the Professorship of Information and Communication Studies to take a lead within the the School in its goal to grow its research, teaching, and international visibility. The successful candidate will be offered a permanent full-time Professorship in the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. The successful candidate will be expected to take on the responsibilities of head of school for a term at or shortly after the commencement of the appointment. Candidates with appropriate expertise in any area of the broad field of Information and Communication Studies will be considered. Current areas of research in the School include human-computer interaction, digital curation, cultural heritage informatics, data/information ethics, information architecture, foundations of information studies, information behaviour, data practices, and information literacy. Note: It is envisaged interviews will take place in week commencing in late February 2016. The appointed Professor will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2016. Details can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ (click on external positions and search for academic posts in Information and Communication Studies). Informal queries can be addressed to Kalpana Shankar at kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie From lee.komito at ucd.ie Wed Nov 4 07:00:43 2015 From: lee.komito at ucd.ie (Lee Komito) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:00:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] permanent faculty positions - University College Dublin iSchool In-Reply-To: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> References: <561C41BC.4010709@ischool.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <5639F36B.4060709@ucd.ie> Vacancy: Lecturer, Permanent Status, Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin (applications due November 30 2015) We are pleased to announce the expansion of the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. We are advertising for at least one lecturer (permanent status) position. We invite applications from scholars who can contribute to and expand our strengths in research and teaching in information and communication studies. We define the field broadly as the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures. We welcome applications from researchers with expertise in areas including but not limited to: communication and media, organisational studies, computer-supported cooperative work, information systems, information design, social computing, digital curation, cultural heritage informatics, data/information ethics, health information, metadata & classification, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, digital archives/libraries, information architecture, information literacy, and other related topics. It is anticipated that interviews will take place in the week commencing 18th January 2016. The appointed Lecturer will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2016. Details can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ (click on external positions and search for academic posts in Information and Communication Studies). Informal queries can be addressed to Kalpana Shankar (kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie) From kamps at uva.nl Wed Nov 4 10:13:01 2015 From: kamps at uva.nl (Jaap Kamps) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:13:01 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: WSDM'16 WS on Search and Exploration of X-rated Information: Deadline Nov 30 Message-ID: <563A207D.4070707@uva.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS WSDM 2016 Workshop: Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI 2016) website: http://sexi2016.org/ email: info at sexi2016.org Submissions due: November 30, 2015 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Adult content is pervasive on the web, has been a driving factor in the adoption of the Internet medium, and is responsible for a significant fraction of traffic and revenues, yet rarely attracts the attention of researchers. This half-day workshop on Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information at the 2016 WSDM conference will discuss questions for information access tasks and search behavior related to adult content. While the scope of the workshop remains broad, we will devote special attention to the privacy and security issues with respect to adult content. The recent release of the personal data belonging to customers of the adult dating site Ashley Madison provides a timely context for the focus on privacy and security (*). The data collected by adult sites, derived from both visitors to the site and providers of content, is arguably more sensitive than other commercial data, because of the controversial nature of the sites themselves. (*) SUBMISSION FORMAT We solicit short (2-page) position papers, and longer (4-page) research papers. Position papers identify an issue or problem related to adult information access, and outline a possible resolution or approach to address an issue. Research papers present academic research in areas within the scope of the workshop. Papers should not include examples of adult content, and papers containing adult content will be rejected without review. If in doubt, assume it is adult content. Paper should be submitted using the ACM Proceedings templates to EasyChair . IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: November 30, 2015 (before midnight, AoE time zone) Notification: December 13, 2015 Workshop: February 22, 2016 ORGANIZERS Vanessa Murdock Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai & KTH Stockholm From smolanovicha at missouri.edu Wed Nov 4 10:32:09 2015 From: smolanovicha at missouri.edu (Smolanovich, Andrea L.) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 15:32:09 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST Meeting for Missouri Faculty Positions Message-ID: Faculty members from the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri will attend the ASIST Conference in October and will be pleased to meet with candidates or potential candidates for our two open-rank, tenure-track faculty positions. More information about the positions are available here: https://myhr.umsystem.edu/psp/tamext/COLUM/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=16461&SiteId=9&PostingSeq=1 The University of Missouri is an equal opportunity/access/affirmative action/pro-disabled and veteran employer. If you wish to schedule a meeting during the conference, please contact Denice Adkins (adkinsde at missouri.edu). ________________________________ Andrea Smolanovich Strategic Communications SISLT | iSchool at University of Missouri 111 London Hall Columbia, MO 65211 573.884.0282 - Office 573.355.8976 - Cell Smolanovicha at missouri.edu SISLT.Missouri.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Field research primarily involves data collection, and often attempts to understand someone else's experience. The high failure rates of ICT4D projects call for fundamentally new ways to tackle the challenges experienced by researchers and practitioners when planning and conducting ICT4D field research. This mini-track invites researchers and practitioners to share and analyze their success stories, failures, mistakes, and advice, which would gather momentum for a global discussion on better managing ICT4D field research, furthering the larger goal of socioeconomic and human development of marginalized communities across the developing world. Suggested Topics Topics include but are not limited to: * Factors influencing the planning, implementation, and reporting of ICT4D field research * Data collection challenges in the developing world: A multi-stakeholder perspective * Innovative process-based and technology-driven solutions to capture, store, and process different types of textual, numeric, audiovisual, and tactile data * Open data, big data, and real-time data for conducting ICT4D field research * Issues related to data security, privacy, ethics, copyrights, and intellectual property * What can ICT4D field research in the developing and developed world learn from each other? * Applications of established theoretical frameworks and perspectives from multiple disciplines like anthropology, HCI, computer science, information science, MIS, etc. for managing ICT4D field research * Managing the scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communication, and risks related to ICT4D field research * Ways to develop the skills and knowledge needed to conduct ICT4D field research * Dynamic inter-relationship between contextual factors (e.g., policy frameworks, environmental conditions, culture, etc.), research methods, and local assistants in ICT4D field research * Applications of emerging technologies like NFC, M&E tools, SMAC, etc. to manage ICT4D field research IMportant Date March 2, 2016 (10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time): Deadline for paper submissions Instructions for Authors The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org. _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, M.S., M.P.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 +1-865-974-2148; Twitter: DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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First year MLIS student Yi Ding will attend the conference for the first time. Join us for our reception Friday, November 6 from 5-7pm at BJ's Restaurant & Brewery in Pasadena! -- Elizabeth Kalbers Administrative Assistant UCLA Department of Information Studies 310-206-9393 kalbers at gseis.ucla.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb633 at drexel.edu Wed Nov 4 17:00:39 2015 From: kb633 at drexel.edu (Boland,Kerry) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 22:00:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?Drexel_University=92s_College_of_Comput?= =?windows-1252?q?ing_=26_Informatics_at_ASIS=26T_Annual_Meeting_2015?= Message-ID: <8A3EE63B361E364EA41B10DE3FBE64FDCDF09894@MB3.drexel.edu> Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2015 Several members of the Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) community will be participating in workshops, panels and poster presentations at this year?s 78th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (Nov. 6-10, 2015). In addition, CCI Professor Denise Agosto will be presented with the 2015 ASIS&T Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award at the meeting?s Annual Awards Luncheon on Tues., Nov. 10 at noon. The following CCI faculty, professional staff and doctoral students (listed in bold) will be participating in the Annual Meeting: Monday, Nov. 9 - 1:30 p.m. ? Paper: Controlled Vocabularies for Scientific Data: Users and Desired Functionalities Authors: Yue Zhang (Doctoral Student), Adrian Ogletree (Research Project Manager), Jane Greenberg (Alice B. Kroeger Professor), Chelcie Rowell - 3:30 p.m. ? Panel: Standing Out in the Academic LIS Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students Panelists: Rajesh Singh, St. John?s University; Karen Miller, University of South Carolina; Lorraine Richards (Assistant Professor), Drexel University; Nicole A. Cooke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee; Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse University; Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University. Moderator: Naresh K. Agarwal, Simmons College - 6:30 p.m. ? President?s Reception Featuring Posters ??Nothing as practical as a good theory.? Does Lewin?s Maxim Still Have Salience in the Applied Social Sciences?? Author: Katherine W. McCain (Professor Emeritus) ?Culture and Information Architecture: A Study of American and Arab Academic Websites.? Authors: Houda El Mimouni (Doctoral Student), Drexel University, and Craig MacDonald, Pratt Institute ?A Scientometric Comparative Study of Single-walled and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Research.? Authors: Geet Lahoti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meen Chul Kim (Doctoral Student), Drexel University; and Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter, Chuck Zhang, Ben Wang and Diana Hicks, all of Georgia Institute of Technology ?Quantitative Exploration into the Diffusion Process of Creative Ideas in Economics: Nobel Prize Laureates.? Authors: Meen Chul Kim, Qing Ping, Yongjun Zhu and Yuanyuan Feng (All Doctoral Students) ?Does Author Affiliation Reputation Affect Uncitedness?? Authors: Wen Lou, Wuhan University, China, and Jiangen He (Doctoral Student), Drexel University Tuesday, Nov. 10 - 8:30 a.m. ? Panel: Impact-Driven Work: Tearing Down the Firewalls between Research and Practice Panelists: Denise E. Agosto (Professor), Drexel University; Denise A.D. Bedford, Georgetown University; Michael Khoo (Assistant Teaching Professor), Drexel University; Delia Neuman (Professor),Drexel University - 3:30 p.m. ? Panel: Cultural Diversity in LIS Research: National and International Communities as Context Panelists: Denise Agosto (Professor), Drexel University; Bella Jing Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China; Kristene Unsworth (Assistant Professor, ASIS&T SIG-IEP Chair), Drexel University; Jenny Bossaller, University of Missouri; Deborah Turner (Assistant Professor), Drexel University Please visit the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting program webpage for more details and a complete schedule of events. 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Two core themes will be examined: 1) the importance of collaborative, cross-disciplinary programs, and, 2) the visibility afforded by technology and technology-based engagement allowing greater ?impact? in arts and humanities disciplines. Within this context, panelists will discuss a collaborative interactive exhibit of library data, image classification of library collections using Flickr, engagement with digital methods, and an examination of altmetrics and current trends in research assessment. https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/breaking-traditional-barriers-collaboration-impact-and-information-technology-in-the-humanities/ SIG AH Business Meeting (Monday Nov. 9, 2:45pm ? Sterling 6) Please join SIG AH for our 2015 annual business meeting in Sterling 6 at the Hyatt. We will be welcoming our newest Officers, discussing our 2016 Symposium and student research contest, and planning our upcoming webinars. SIG AH & SJSU ASIST Social Event (Monday, Nov. 9, 5:15 - 6:30pm) Location: 360 ? Roof of the Hilton at the Ballpark http://www.360-stl.com/ If you plan to attend, please RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/QcIlgEzpRR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sian.Evans at ARTstor.org Fri Nov 6 10:16:26 2015 From: Sian.Evans at ARTstor.org (Sian Evans) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:16:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 3rd Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: call for satellite events Message-ID: Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting! Have you ever wondered how you might use your own particular skills and subject expertise to help build the world's most popular online research tool? We are the lead co-organizers of Art+Feminism, a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to encourage female editorship. We invite you to join us for the 3rd international Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, on the weekend of March 4-6, 2016. Last year, over 1500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and more than 75 node events around the world participated in the second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. We are hoping to double these results in 2016, and this is where we need you! Email us at info at art.plusfeminism.org to organize a satellite event at your institution. We will help walk you through the logistics of setting up and connect you with a Wikipedian who can help facilitate training. It's a great way to do your part to close the gender gap AND establish a Wikipedia practice on your campus! Funds are available for satellite events. Get in touch to learn more. We look forward to hearing from you! The Art+Feminism team (Si?n Evans + Jackie Mabey + Michael Mandiberg) PS Can't organize your own event but still want to be involved? 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URL: From kfleisch at ischool.utexas.edu Fri Nov 6 12:41:37 2015 From: kfleisch at ischool.utexas.edu (Fleischmann, Kenneth R) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:41:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG CON: Tuesday, November 10, 8 pm Message-ID: <71655139-39FB-4245-91D4-151C306FB4BB@ischool.utexas.edu> Dear ASIS&T Community, As acting interim assistant affiliate adjunct pro tem program co-chair of SIG CON, on behalf of Dr. Llewellyn C. Puppybreath, III, the permanent and perpetual chair of SIG CON, I would like to invite all of you to attend the eagerly awaited SIG CON at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in St. Louis. We have an internationally renowned set of panelists, including Sean Goggins (Missouri), Theresa Anderson (U. of Technology Sydney), and Adam Worrall (Alberta). Appropriate attire required (Casual White Tie Optional). SIG CON will be held on Tuesday, November 10 from 8 pm to 10 pm-ish. Please note that there is a vicious rumor that the session begins at 8:30; this was clearly a result of jealousy from the other SIGs (I?m looking at you, SIG SI ;) Please note that although you are welcome to join us at 8:30, if so the joke will be on you, and you?ll miss 25% of the fun and libations). Please make sure to arrive fashionably on time, as given the gravity of an event such as SIG CON, we are certainly certain to be precisely punctual. Again, look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, November 10 at 8 pm in Grand C. Complementary entertainment will include pin-the-long-tail-on-the-Assocation, dunking for metadata, and horseshoe and hand grenade tossing. Howdy and g?day, eh? Peace, Love, Empathy, Ken Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Fri Nov 6 14:42:01 2015 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:42:01 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS at ASIS&T Message-ID: Dean *Eileen Abels* will participate in an interactive panel session, ?Envisioning our Information Future and How to Educate for It: A Community Conversation? at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO on Tuesday, November 10. Associate Professor *Naresh Agarwal* and Assistant Professor *Kyong Eun Oh* will participate in a panel, ?Information Seeking and Beyond: Impacts of Studying Different Forms of Information Behavior? at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting on November 9. Agarwal will also present a poster: ?How does Knowledge Management affect Service Innovation in Academic Libraries?: A survey study.? -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* Buy the Kindle edition of *The Blood Confession* ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmasten at mail.twu.edu Fri Nov 6 21:44:32 2015 From: kmasten at mail.twu.edu (Masten, Kathryn) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 02:44:32 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Meeting at ASIS&T for TWU Faculty Position Message-ID: <11A930B070A92946A0467C485CA2E87A273DA195@ARGON01.fs.dew.twu> The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at Texas Woman's University (TWU) welcomes the opportunity to meet with individuals interested in TWU's open Assistant or Associate Professor position at the upcoming ASIS&T Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. If you would like to schedule an informational meeting at ASIS&T to discuss the position, please contact me (Kathryn Masten, kmasten at twu.edu) with your available (or unavailable) days and times on Nov. 8th or 9th. Kathryn Masten, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Studies kmasten at twu.edu Texas Woman's University http://www.twu.edu/slis/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rieh at umich.edu Sat Nov 7 17:37:40 2015 From: rieh at umich.edu (Soo Young Rieh) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:37:40 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Michigan Faculty Position - Digital Curation Message-ID: The School of Information at the University of Michigan (UMSI) seeks to hire a tenure-track professor at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank who conducts research in the multidisciplinary field of digital curation. Broadly construed, digital curation research includes digital curation technologies and methods, representation and interpretation of heterogeneous digital content and collections, integrity and user acceptance, interoperability, and long-term sustainability. We favor candidates with strong interest and expertise in: ? Methods to assess and improve the quality of data that originate from formal and informal sources, such as research data, social media trace data, and citizen science ? Models and methods to extract and trace data provenance, and correspondingly, methods to use provenance in analysis, quality assessment, and reasoning about, linking, and retrieving data ? Incentives for data sharing and models for reuse of digital data ? Ontologies and models (general and domain-specific) that make it possible to conceptualize, act, and reason about data in a more atomic and structured fashion ? Policy, algorithmic, organizational, and practice-based methods to mitigate privacy and security problems with digital data For all UMSI positions, we favor candidates whose research interests complement our existing expertise in such areas as computer-supported cooperative work; digital archives and preservation; human-computer interaction; incentive-centered design and information economics; information seeking, sharing and use; Internet-scale data, network and text analysis; social computing and informatics; and health informatics. This new faculty position provides the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of the University?s recently announced $100M investment in data science (http://midas.umich.edu). The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information -- with technology -- to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to, and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society. The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs, with 40 FTE professors, and over 600 students. We offer four degrees: a Ph.D., a Master of Science in Information, a Master of Health Informatics (joint with the School of Public Health), and a Bachelor of Science in Information. Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $1.7 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.6 billion. *Qualifications* ? Ph.D. in an area such as information science, archival science, computer science, informatics or fields related to digital curation including social science ? Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels ? Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact ? A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity *Background Screening* The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. *U-M EEO/AA Statement* The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2015 and continue until the positions are filled. For more information or for application instructions, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/32067. For questions about potential fit and your application please contact Dr. Carl Lagoze at clagoze at umich.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vivien.petras at ibi.hu-berlin.de Mon Nov 9 09:23:20 2015 From: vivien.petras at ibi.hu-berlin.de (Vivien Petras) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:23:20 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Full_professor_position_=E2=80=9CInformation_P?= =?utf-8?q?rocessing_and_Analytics=E2=80=9D=3A_Berlin_School_of_Library_an?= =?utf-8?q?d_Information_Science=2C_Humboldt-Universit=C3=A4t_zu_Berlin_?= =?utf-8?q?=28application_deadline=3A_4=2E_December_2015=29?= In-Reply-To: <5640A9A5.70600@ibi.hu-berlin.de> References: <5640A9A5.70600@ibi.hu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <5640AC58.5040905@ibi.hu-berlin.de> The Faculty of Arts and Humanities I, Berlin School of Library and Information Science invites applications for a Full Professorship in ?Information Processing and Analytics? (W2) starting at the earliest possible date. Excellent research in basic (theory-building) and / or applied topics of Information Science is expected, in particular approaches for the computer-supported organization, analysis and processing of large volumes of data and its impact on information and knowledge processes. The professorship will complement and enrich the research and teaching areas at the Berlin School (particularly Information Behavior and Information Retrieval). The future professor should focus their research in one or more of the following areas: Data Science, Data Analytics (also domain-specific approaches such as Cultural Analytics or Scientometrics), Data Mining, Big Data, Linked Data, Knowledge Representation, Data Architectures (also Metadata Modelling), Databases and Data Stores as well as related areas. Besides independent scientific research and teaching, the position also includes the recruiting of externally funded projects as well as the supervising of BA, MA and PhD theses at the Berlin School. The future holder of the position will be expected to teach in all study programs of the Berlin School (BA and MA) and to assume responsibility for selected course modules. Some of these currently running modules or classes would be available: Communication Technology, Theory and Development of Information Databases, Communication and Knowledge Management, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Knowledge Management Systems and Data Mining. It is of course also desirable if the candidate?s own research profile would influence the design and re-design of course modules, some of which will be taught in English. The Berlin School expects very good didactic competencies, excellent communication skills and a strong engagement in shaping the profile of the School within the university and a worldwide research community. The willingness to participate in the school?s academic self-government is assumed. The applicants must meet the legal requirements of professorial appointments in accordance with ? 100 of the ?Berliner Hochschulgesetz?. Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Researchers from abroad are welcome to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically encouraged to apply. Additional to the standard application materials (application letter, curriculum vitae, diplomas, a detailed documentation of teaching experiences as well as previous and future research projects, a publication list with up to 5 full-text copies of newer publications), the applicants need to submit an expose describing their ideas and future research and teaching plans within the context of the Berlin School. Please send your English-language application quoting the reference number PR/027/15 within the next 4 weeks to Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakult?t I, Prof. Michael Seadle, PhD, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany. To expedite the processing, we ask applicants to submit the application material in the pdf format to DekanPhilFakI at staff.hu-berlin.de as well. Because application materials will not be returned, please only submit copies of official documents. Please visit the website http://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/w2-professur-fuer-information-processing-and-analytics201d, which gives access to the legally binding German version. -- ------- Vivien Petras, PhD Professor for Information Retrieval Berlin School of Library and Information Science Humboldt University Berlin Dorotheenstr. 26, 10117 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 2093-4325 Fax: +49 30 2093-4335 vivien.petras at ibi.hu-berlin.de www.ibi.hu-berlin.de From minashojaei at WPI.EDU Mon Nov 9 14:32:34 2015 From: minashojaei at WPI.EDU (Shojaeizadeh, Mina) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:32:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Items for AIS SIGHCI Newsletter: Volume 14, Issue 2 Message-ID: <98CEE7B1903DE14EA111927965A51DB0E9CB790C@S197.admin.wpi.edu> Dear all, You are invited to offer items to the coming issue of AIS SIGHCI newsletter (Volume 14, Issue 2), to be published in November 2015. All items will be editorial reviewed. If you are interested, please send your pieces to either of the newsletter editors Mina Shojaei Zadeh (minashojaei at wpi.edu) or Upasna Bhandari (upasna.bhandari at u.nus.edu) by November 20, 2015. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Short essay/opinion/research study (800 - 1700 words) 2. HCI book review (800 - 1700 words). Please feel free to contact the editor beforehand if you intend to review a book or if you wish your own book to be reviewed. 3. Teaching HCI (up to 1700 words): teaching ideas or cases, sample syllabus, etc. 4. Industry voice (800 - 1700 words). We welcome HCI related essays from industry professionals. 5. Brief introduction of HCI research tools (up to 300 words). 6. Brief introduction of interesting HCI journals and/or special issues, including citation information, brief description, table of content (for special issues), etc. 7. CFP for HCI related journals or conferences. 8. News about SIGHCI members (up to 300 words for each item): honors and awards, professional activities, new appointments, interesting projects, new books or publications, etc. 9. Any other announcements (up to 300 words for each item). Best regards, Mina Shojaeizadeh School of Business, PhD candidate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, minashojaei at wpi.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ischoolumd at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 15:15:35 2015 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (Ischool UMD) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:15:35 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities in Digital Privacy & Security - Info Session at UMD's iSchool Message-ID: Are you interested in pursuing a PhD at Maryland?s iSchool with world-class faculty conducting impactful research? Are you passionate about information privacy and security? Join Assistant Professors Marshini Chetty, Katie Shilton, and Jessica Vitak for an online information session about funded opportunities for digital privacy- and security-related doctoral studies at UMD. Thursday, November 19, 3 - 4 p.m. EST at https://webmeeting.umd.edu/phdinfo Please RSVP here: *http://go.umd.edu/4b3 * Learn more about Maryland's iSchool [ *http://ischool.umd.edu * ] and the PhD in Information Studies program [*http://ischool.umd.edu/phd * ]. For best consideration, apply online [ *http://go.umd.edu/4bo * ] by January 15, 2016 (December 1, 2015 for international applicants). -- Katie Shilton Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park kshilton at umd.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Thu Nov 12 16:53:14 2015 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:53:14 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science special issue "Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web" is now available on Project MUSE Message-ID: The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Volume 39, Number 3/4, September-December 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE: Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Era of the Participatory Social Web Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Elaine M?nard The term "Web 2.0" refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible - and intensified - global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers.This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web's massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors. This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes underway within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. This issue contains: Preface: Archives, Libraries, and Museums in the Era of the Participatory Social Web Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Elaine M?nard http://bit.ly/cjils393_4a Pr?face : Les archives, les biblioth?ques et les mus?es ? l'?re du web social participatif Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Elaine M?nard http://bit.ly/cjils393_4b Characteristics and Effectiveness of Tags in Public Library Online Public Access Catalogues/Les caract?ristiques et l'efficacit? des balises dans les catalogues publics en ligne des biblioth?ques publiques Isola Ajiferuke, Jamie Goodfellow, Adeola Opesade http://bit.ly/cjils393_4c Influence, Reciprocity, Participation, and Visibility: Assessing the Social Library on Twitter/Influence, r?ciprocit?, participation, et visibilit? : ?valuation de la biblioth?que sociale sur Twitter Lorri Mon, Jisue Lee http://bit.ly/cjils393_4d "Library 2.0" Viewed through the Prism of the French Librarians' Blogs/La ? Biblioth?que 2.0 ? vue ? travers le prisme des blogs de biblioth?caires fran?ais B?reng?re Stassin http://bit.ly/cjils393_4e Le crowdsourcing scientifique et patrimonial ? la crois?e de mod?les de coordination et de coop?ration : Le cas des herbiers num?ris?s/Scientific and Heritage Crowdsourcing at the Crossroads of Models of Coordination and Cooperation: The Case of Digital Herbaria Manuel Zacklad, Lisa Chupin http://bit.ly/cjils393_4f M?thodologie d'analyse de la participation informatique de l'usager d'un mus?e/Methodology of Analysis of Museum User Computer Involvement Florence Andreacola, Eric SanJuan, Marie-Sylvie Poli http://bit.ly/cjils393_4g Lumping (and Splitting) LAMs: The Story of Grouping Libraries, Archives, and Museums/Regroupement (et division) des BAMs : Histoire du regroupement des biblioth?ques, des archives et des mus?es Cheryl Klimaszewski http://bit.ly/cjils393_4h Participation, Collaboration, and Community Building in Digital Repositories/Participation, collaboration et d?veloppement communautaire dans les d?p?ts num?riques Amy Williams http://bit.ly/cjils393_4i Social Media in Libraries and Archives: Applied with Caution/Les m?dias sociaux dans les biblioth?ques et les archives : Appliqu?s avec prudence Chern Li Liew, Shannon Wellington, Gillian Oliver, Reid Perkins http://bit.ly/cjils393_4j A respected source of the most up-to-date research on library and information science, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is recognized internationally for its authoritative bilingual contributions to the field of information science. Established in 1976, the journal is dedicated to the publication of research findings, both in full-length and in brief format; reviews of books; software and technology; and letters to the editor. Join CJILS email list! Please sign up for important news relating to The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. You'll receive emails with peeks inside new issues, Tables of Contents, Calls for Papers, editorial announcements, open access articles, and special offers. Sign up here - bit.ly/alertsCJILS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dpotnis at utk.edu Sat Nov 14 10:49:44 2015 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:49:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: "Managing ICT4D Field Research in the Developing World" Minitrack - AMCIS 2016 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems "Managing ICT4D Field Research in the Developing World: Challenges, Opportunities, & Innovative Solutions" Minitrack - ICTs in Global Development (SIGGlobDev) Track NOTE: Authors of best papers in the ICTs in Global Development track will be invited to submit revised versions for fast-track review and possible publication in the journal Information Technology for Development (ITD) - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/titd20/current. DESCRIPTION A large number of ICT for development (ICT4D) projects cannot meet their objectives. One cause of the failures of ICT4D projects is related to the shortcomings in field research, an integral part of ICT4D projects. Field research primarily involves data collection, and often attempts to understand someone else's experience. The high failure rates of ICT4D projects call for fundamentally new ways to tackle the challenges experienced by researchers and practitioners when planning and conducting ICT4D field research. This mini-track invites researchers and practitioners to share and analyze their success stories, failures, mistakes, and advice, which would gather momentum for a global discussion on better managing ICT4D field research, furthering the larger goal of socioeconomic and human development of marginalized communities across the developing world. SUGGESTED TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: * Factors influencing the planning, implementation, and reporting of ICT4D field research * Data collection challenges in the developing world: A multi-stakeholder perspective * Innovative process-based and technology-driven solutions to capture, store, and process different types of textual, numeric, audiovisual, and tactile data * Open data, big data, and real-time data for conducting ICT4D field research * Issues related to data security, privacy, ethics, copyrights, and intellectual property * What can ICT4D field research in the developing and developed world learn from each other? * Applications of established theoretical frameworks and perspectives from multiple disciplines like anthropology, HCI, computer science, information science, MIS, etc. for managing ICT4D field research * Managing the scope, time, cost, quality, HR, communication, and risks related to ICT4D field research * Ways to develop the skills and knowledge needed to conduct ICT4D field research * Dynamic inter-relationship between contextual factors (e.g., policy frameworks, environmental conditions, culture, etc.), research methods, and local assistants in ICT4D field research * Applications of emerging technologies like NFC, M&E tools, SMAC, etc. to manage ICT4D field research IMPORTANT DATE March 2, 2016 (10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time): Deadline for paper submissions INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org. _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, M.S., M.P.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 +1-865-974-2148; Twitter: DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis From Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au Thu Nov 12 06:15:08 2015 From: Helen.Partridge at usq.edu.au (Helen Partridge) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:15:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] REMINDER: 9th EBLIP Conference in 2017: Call for Expressions of Interest Message-ID: Call for Expressions of Interest to host the 9th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference in 2017 The International Advisory Committee (IAC) for the International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) Conference Series warmly invites expressions of interest from individuals, organizations, and associations working in the public sector (e.g. academic, school, local and regional authorities, national associations) to host the 9th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference in 2017. Candidates wishing to host the Conference must apply to Helen Partridge helen.partridge at usq.edu.au by Monday November 30 2015 The EBLIP Conference is a biennial event designed to promote the use of best available evidence to improve library and information practice in libraries of all types. It brings together practitioners, researchers and students involved in critical and reflective information practice to think through new ways to address contemporary issues of evidence based practice in less isolated, more collaborative, ways. The first EBL(IP) Conference took place in Sheffield,UK in 2001. The success of this conference led to further successful conferences in Edmonton (Canada, 2003), Brisbane (Australia, 2005), Chapel Hill (USA, 2007), Stockholm (Sweden, 2009), Salford (UK, 2011), Saskatoon (Canada, 2013) and Brisbane (Australia, 2015) Supporting Details, including theExpression of Interest Template, are available at http://eblip8.info/about/eblip9-in-2017-call-for-eoi/ The successful applicant will be notified by December 31, 2015. 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The University of Southern Queensland is a registered provider of education with the Australian Government. (CRICOS Institution Code QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M, TEQSA PRV12081 ) From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Mon Nov 16 11:58:25 2015 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:58:25 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] analysis of how much of the web wayback machine is really archiving Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many of you would find of considerable interest some of the statistics from my new analysis, out this morning, of what's really in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the oddities and skew of how its crawlers ingest the web: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/11/16/how-much-of-the-internet-does-the-wayback-machine-really-archive/ One of the biggest themes that emerges is the need for greater transparency and understanding of the algorithms and collection processes of large web archives and dialog with the scholarly research community around what they collect and the impacts of those decisions on how and in what ways the archives can be used for research on the evolution of the web. ~Kalev http://kalevleetaru.com/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you so much! ..... ... --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies ( http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ), to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 22, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From silvello at dei.unipd.it Thu Nov 12 05:48:47 2015 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:48:47 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] [CfP Data Citation] IEEE TCDL Special Issue on Data Citation: Deadline approaching (30 Nov. 2015) Message-ID: <8C2B783A-3F9D-4654-AB8E-3E9435FE25B1@dei.unipd.it> IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL) Special Issue on Data Citation http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/TCDL/index.php/DataCitation Call for Papers Citation is an essential part of scientific publishing and scholarship. Nowadays, many scientific publications are related to or based on data which are modeled, managed and stored by means of heterogeneous formats and technologies (e.g. relational databases, digital libraries, XML, RDF, CSV, ...). Data citation allows us to establish a direct relationship between a data source and a publication or a statement relying on that data source. Being able to cite a dataset or a part of a it is essential for: making results of research fully available to others; enabling others to better build on previous results and to ask new questions about data; replicating, reproducing and verifying research; advancing the state of research and innovation. Furthermore, data citation is fundamental for giving credit to data creators and curators, to reference data in order to identify, discover and retrieve them and for building and propagating knowledge. Commonly data citation is paired up with traditional citation practices but data present some key differences that turn out to be serious challenges impairing the development of effective data citation methodologies: data evolution through time; different formats and structures: unstructured, single files, hypertext, RDF/LOD, XML, Relational DB, raw data, streaming data; necessity to cite a subset of data; collaborative works not structured as it happens in a scientific paper; licensing issues: open data, limited access, credentials; variety of systems managing data and lack of common standards and APIs. In the last years several international initiatives and research projects have been facing the issues concerned with data citation, but despite all these efforts there are several crucial questions that still need to be answered. For instance: how is a data source or a subset of it to be cited? When some data from a large and complex data source is extracted, how do we create a citation? How is it possible to verify the correctness of a citation? How does one retrieve the cited data? How is it possible to maintain data consistent across time handling changes? What is the role of data citations for scholarship attribution? This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community interested in providing novel methodologies or frameworks for managing, assessing, monitoring, maintaining and improving data citation and more in general to discuss the importance of data citation for the advancement of research. <>Topics We welcome original submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: Principles of data citation Relational databases, XML, CSV, Tabular data, Linked Data, RDF citation methodologies Systems for data citation (digital libraries, relation databases, scientific databases, ...) Computational problems in data citation Executable/Actionable papers Metadata for data citation Automatic generation of citations Machine-readable data citations Verification of citations Closure of citations Citation of evolving data Citation with variable granularity Credit attribution Definition and maintenance of authority lists Reproducibility issues Tools for data citation Tracking the impact of data Visualization of data citations The use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) Data citation for scholarship Data sharing Data citation for the humanities, psychology, social sciences, ... Data citation for chemistry, physics, mathematics, ... Licensing issues Data journals Relationships between traditional and data citation methods Enrichment of LOD for citation purposes Impact measures based on data citation Interoperability issues in data citation Data quality and data citation Data curation/provenance and data citation Long term preservation and data citation Open access to data citation <>Submission guidelines All submissions must be written in English following the ACM SIGIR author guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ) and submitted electronically through the special issues submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeetcdldc2016 Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated issue on the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Bulletin (http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/index.html ). <>Important Dates 30 November 2015 - Initial submission deadline 15 January 2016 - Initial reviewer feedback 15 February 2016 - Revised submissions deadline 11 March 2016 - Final decision 25 March 2016 - Camera ready Mid April 2016 - Publication <>Special Issue Editors Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy > Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy > Special Issue Editorial Board Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs, The Netherlands Bradley Hemminger, University of North Carolina, USA Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Paolo Manghi, Consorzio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI-CNR, Italy Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Costantino Thanos, Consorzio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI-CNR, Italy --- Dr. Ing. 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The preferred candidate will have a leading-edge research agenda, a record of successful publication, experience in a professional context, potential to develop external funding opportunities, and be able to contribute to effective teaching and professional service in the academic and community contexts. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers flexible programs that provide fully online or hybrid course delivery options. Minimum Qualifications Applicants for this position must hold a doctorate degree in library and information science or a related discipline. Preferred Qualifications ? Established research agenda, with potential for external funding* ? Online teaching experience or interest ? Demonstrated record of teaching excellence *Research agendas can include but are not limited to one of the following areas: ? Data Curation/Data Science ? Health Information ? Information Management/Visualization/Analytics ? Information Policy ? Knowledge Management ? User Experience Applicants with experience or interest in multidisciplinary collaboration are preferred. For the full position profile and desired qualifications, please visit: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp. The posting number is 1500801. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers an ALA-accredited MS in Information and Library Science, an MS in School Librarianship, and an Advanced Studies Certificate. These programs enjoy strong stakeholder support from the community. In addition, we have collaborative agreements with the School of Law to offer a JD/MS in Information and Library Science and with the Department of Music to offer an MA (Music) and MS in Information and Library Science. UB is a flagship institution in the SUNY system and a member of the Association of American Universities. Recently, US News and World Report ranked UB among the top 50 of the best public national universities. UB has also been named one of the ?Great Colleges to Work For? by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls region features four seasons of activities and events, from arts, culture, and historical tourism, to professional sports and environmental splendor. The City of Buffalo is consistently voted a top arts and culture destination. To learn more about the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, visit http://www.buffalo.edu/about_ub/the-buffalo-niagara-region.html. The Search Committee will accept nominations and applications until the position is filled. Nominations Please send nominations to the Search Committee Chair and include the nominee?s name, position, email address, and telephone number. Applications Please include the following application materials online at: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp, posting number 1500801. 1. Cover letter expressing interest in the position 2. Complete vita 3. Research statement and teaching statement 4. Contact information for three professional references. Initial screening of completed applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Informal interviews may be scheduled by Skype, at the 2015 conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology, or at the 2016 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Please send inquiries and nominations to: Dr. Ying Sun, Search Committee Chair 534 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Phone: 716-645-2412 Email: sun3 at buffalo.edu The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. best, -Ying Ying Sun, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science University at Buffalo, SUNY 548 Baldy Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Wed Nov 11 12:34:54 2015 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:34:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Temporary Metadata Specialist / New York Ciity Message-ID: <8D1B732A6F5AC54393D612ADD9592C3615B2B15E@ex1mbx02.onthenetoffice.com> Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group is seeking a Temporary Metadata Specialist to work for LAC Group's client a media company; located in New York City (Manhattan). This position includes data entry of specific and relevant metadata specific to the corresponding digital assets within our client's specific style guidelines. This position is estimated to last about 2 to 4 months. A successful candidate will have had previous meta-tagging experience especially with media assets and understand the role of standards, accuracy, structure, context and geography. Responsibilities: * Complete and accurate data entry of relevant metatags within a pre-defined format and style; * Perform captioning of videos * Timely completion of assigned work; * Ability to proof and quality control their own work and remain consistent with the rest of the project team; Qualifications: * 1 - 4 years previous metadata / meta tagging experience especially within a media / publishing environment; * Knowledge of digital and video image files and formats is preferred * Experience working within specific metadata style guidelines; * Excellent reading, analytically and communication skills; * Ability to read and summarize content succinctly; * Creative problem solving abilities; * Good organizational, time management and customer service skills essential; Apply online at: http://goo.gl/icXV3k LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjdiscordia at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 19:34:48 2015 From: sjdiscordia at gmail.com (Shinjoung Yeo) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:34:48 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Information Observatory Message-ID: <1982DEEB-A6A5-4302-A59F-B58473D2D173@gmail.com> Pardon the duplication. My colleague and I have recently launched Information Observatory (http://informationobservatory.info/ ). Our aim is to question and analyse a wide range of information and communication domains and identify structural forces that undergird changes in the information landscape. Our latest post is ?Behind big data" (http://informationobservatory.info/2015/11/09/behind-big-data/ ), and you will also see our analysis on the recent Google Book Project ruling. We'd appreciate if you would share this announcement with your networks if appropriate. We hope to write a new piece every two weeks; you can subscribe on IO to receive announcements of new postings. 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Workshop at CHIIR 2016 (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) http://sigir.org/chiir2016/ March 17, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States For two decades, research has sought to understand serendipity and how it may be facilitated in digital environments such as information visualization systems, search systems, and social media. The motivation for investigating serendipity comes from its association with positive outcomes that range from personal benefits to global rewards. To date, research has made significant headway in defining and mapping the process of serendipity and new tools are emerging to support it. But we lack robust methods of evaluating new or enhanced features, functions, and tools. The goal of the Workshop is to examine how we balance the tension between diversity and novelty in designing digital environments and subsequently how we evaluate the ?serendipitousness? of those environments. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (e.g., information science, HCI, digital humanities, cognitive science) and research perspectives to help us solve this wicked problem. **UPDATE** Keynote ?Is There Anything Serendipity Research Can Learn from Creativity Research?? John Gero, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University John Gero is the author or editor of over 50 books and more than 650 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design cognition, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland. http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/ How to participate Submit a 2-page paper using the ACM SIG Proceedings Template about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to serendipity, either published, or work in progress. Possible themes for these papers may include, but are not limited to: Evaluating whether or how digital environments enables erendipity 1. Use of qualitative methods such as interviews and think-aloud to evaluate user perceptions 2. Modifications to quantitative evaluation methods such as controlled experiments and log file analyses to test designs 3. Identification of factors other than the environment (e.g., context, individual differences, strategies, emotions, attitudes) that influence serendipity that should be taken into consideration during evaluation Designing elements and functions in digital environments so that serendipity is facilitated 1. Application of theory and models in the design (or evaluation) of affordances related to serendipity 2. Design of serendipitous digital environments (e.g., information visualization systems, recommender systems, digital libraries, search engines) Authors of selected papers will be asked to A) give ?lightning talks? on their work through a 5-minute presentation; or B) participate in a ?show and tell event? to demonstrate their project or prototype. In addition, just prior to and during the workshop we will be conducting a whirlwind Delphi study to identify essential and novel measures for assessing ?serendipitousness.? The results of the group effort will be discussed at the Workshop to highlight pertinent measures. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop. **Submissions and inquiries can be sent to Lori McCay-Peet [mccay at dal.ca]** Workshop website: http://sociodigital.net/2015/11/03/cfp-seade/ Important dates * Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 * Notification: December 15, 2015 * Workshop date: March 17, 2016 Conference Organizers Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, Canada Elaine G. Toms, The University of Sheffield, UK Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Program Committee Members Naresh Argawal, Simmons College, USA Jamshid Beheshti, McGill University, Canada Lennart Bj?rneborn, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri, USA Jannica Heinstr?m, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Christoph Lutz, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Stephann Makri, City University London, UK Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario, Canada Xu Sun, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China Simon Wakeling, University of Sheffield, UK ? Lori McCay-Peet, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Management Faculty of Management Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building 6100 University Avenue PO Box 15000 Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 (902)494-6119 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Katrin.Weller at gesis.org Mon Nov 9 17:14:23 2015 From: Katrin.Weller at gesis.org (Weller, Katrin) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:14:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Participation: Computational Social Science Winter Symposium, at GESIS Cologne, Dec 2-3 2015 Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1F47DFC9F@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ============================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL NOV. 18, 2015 ============================================================== 2nd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015 Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws15 ============================================================== The main program for the CSS Winter Symposium 2015 has be announced: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/ We are looking forward to: * an exciting program featuring a eight invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * 70 contributed posters and 11 presentations of recent research from the area of computational social science * the opportunity to participate in workshops and tutorials on the day prior to the symposium * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ----------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------- Andrea Baronchelli (City University London): The Spontaneous Emergence of Social Conventions - An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution Johan Bollen (Indiana University): Modeling critical transitions in mental health from longitudinal social media data Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Communities in Distress: Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Mental Well-being Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University): Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges Andreas Flache (University of Groningen): Ethnic segregation and the fragility of opinion pluriformity in a diverse society Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark): The fundamental structures of complex social systems J?rgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University): Know Your Data! 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PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------------- VENUE ------------------- The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at Maternushaus within walking distance of the central train station and the Cologne cathedral. ------------------- CONTACT ------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Twitter: @mstrohm Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR: ------------------------------ Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Twitter: @kwelle Phone: +49 221 47694472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: ---------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany Email: diana.lindner at gesis.org Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Data mining partnerships between university libraries and vendors will hope to bring millions of books and periodicals to the fingertips of researchers. In this webinar, presenters will talk about the benefits and challenges to text mining and its impact on the library and information community. *Confirmed topics and speakers are:* - *Text Mining and the Research Library: The Humanities and Beyond* - Bernie Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - *Enriching the Social Sciences Through Text Mining* - Alan Maloney, Senior Product Analyst, Sage Publications - *The HathiTrust Research Center: Enabling New Knowledge Through Shared Infrastructure - *Robert McDonald - HathiTrust Research Center Executive committee member; Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 (the day of the webinar). 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This event looks at a spectrum of approaches adopted in developing semantically-enhanced information resources and provides attendees with a better sense of the rate of speed at which this community is moving to achieve the Semantic Web. Presenters will talk about the semantic web landscape, the role linked open data plays in this environment, and current projects underway that demonstrate how the semantic web impacts the library and information community, and what experts in the wider communities are doing to achieve those goals. *CONFIRMED TOPICS & SPEAKERS* * Keynote Address: Matt Turner, Chief Technical Officer, Media and Entertainment, MarkLogic Corporation * International Cultural Informatics Collaborations: Crossing Borders Without Crossing Swords - J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Semantic Web, Linked Data: the Europeana case(s)- Antoine Isaac, R&D Manager, Europeana * Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault - Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC; Bruce Washburn, Software Engineer, OCLC * Getty Vocabularies and the Semantic Web - Joan Cobb, Principal IT Project Manager, Information Technology Services, J. Paul Getty Trust * Building Smarter Books in Browsers with RDFa, Schema.org, and Linked Data: Leveraging Standards & Tools in the Creation of Semantically-Enhanced Reading Systems - Jason A. Clark, Associate Professor and Head of Library Informatics and Computing, Montana State University Libraries * Roundtable Discussion - Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and *closes at 4:00 pm Eastern on Tuesday, December 1, 2015* (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for all six of the 2015 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.) 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Workshops: 5 October 2016 Main Conference: 6-8 October 2016 Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany AoIR 2016 is the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. AoIR 2016 will emphasize the relevance of the Internet in today?s culture and politics. The conference theme addresses the significance of the codes and rules that frame the Internet, as well as their playful circumvention, from technical protocols and popular platforms to the emerging, established, and contested conventions of online communities. Who are the actors both in practices of rule-making and rule-breaking, what are their motivations and resources, and how can their power relations and communicative figurations be described? How does the Internet influence the proliferation of the values that its platforms, services and infrastructures embody, and what spaces of creative resistance persist? How do various forms of technical, social, and cultural hacking subvert these orders? The committee calls for proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, and other events that engage with the conference theme or the field more generally. Topics could include (but are not limited to): - coordination and rule-making online - media, culture and identity - (h)activism and social justice - critical approaches to algorithms, platform studies - codes and practices of internet culture - connected devices and the internet of things - big data and predictive analytics - techno-social interfaces - digital labor, crowdsourcing and co-creation - internet governance and regulation - (global) social media - communication, participation and polarization online - philosophy of information and knowledge We particularly invite submissions that engage with or challenge the conference theme in new and exciting ways, are innovative, or present a novel approach to the topic. We encourage ?experimental sessions? that extend research in unusual directions (via method, topic or presentation structure). We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the internet beyond the conference theme. The committee extends a special invitation to students, researchers, and practitioners who have previously not participated in an Internet Research event to submit proposals. *PROPOSALS* We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions to encompass the breadth of relevant research. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS, organized PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS. We invite proposals that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates. Finally, doctoral students are invited to participate in the DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM preceding the main conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* 15 January 2016 Submission site opens for AoIR 2016 in Berlin 1 March 2016 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 15 March 2016 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation Award due 5 May 2016 Notification of acceptances for presenters 7 June 2016 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 August 2016 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters For further information and updates, please visit the conference website at aoir.org/aoir2016. *SUBMISSION TYPES* Traditional papers: Paper submissions should articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, and indicate the findings or conclusions to be presented and/or the relevance to wider conference themes. Papers can present any kind of research or analysis, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be understood by reviewers working in different disciplines or using different approaches. Cross- or trans-disciplinary work is especially encouraged. Paper submissions should be approximately 1200 words long, including references. Please note that paper submissions need not adhere to a pre-formatted template, but should give an indication as to the consistency, rigor and relevance of the work. Presentations at the IR conference are generally intended to be dynamic, and provide a broad overview of the scholarship being engaged, with the hope of generating useful conversation. Preconstituted panels: Panels should present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. Panel proposals should include 1200-word abstracts as above for each of the constituent papers, as well as a brief statement articulating the papers? relationship to each other. It is recommended that panels include four papers, although submissions of three to five papers will also be considered. The organizer is responsible for compiling the proposal into a single document for submission. Preconference workshops: Workshops may be either half or full-day events that occur on the first day of the conference and focus on a particular topic. They may be a workshop of some kind (e.g., a publishing workshop), a methodological ?bootcamp? (e.g., on ethnography or statistical analysis), an exploration of a theoretical tradition or topical area (e.g., symbolic interaction, political economy, or GIS) or anything else that may be of interest to conference delegates. Proposals for workshops should explain for a general scholarly audience the goals of the workshop, the way it will operate, and an indication of potential audience or attendees who may be interested in attending (such as ?early career scholars? or ?researchers using statistical analysis?). Proposals for workshops should be approximately 600-800 words in length, and should name the workshop facilitators. Roundtable Sessions: Roundtables encourage discussion and interaction among delegates. They may involve brief introductory presentations by organizers. Proposals should include details on the theme or topic of discussion and its relevance, along with names of the organizers/initial participants. Roundtables can include no more than 5 initial participants. Roundtable submissions should be between 250-300 words long (to be included as the ?abstract? in the submissions process?no separate document need be uploaded). Open Fishbowls: Fishbowl sessions should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR community, and create a space for dialogue across different types of research. Submitted proposals should include a brief statement as to the core idea or theme for the fishbowl, emphasizing its relation to conference themes or relevance to the IR community. Fishbowls can include no more than 5 initial participants (named fish). Experimental Sessions: Experimental sessions are those that, while of interest to members or engaging with conference themes, meaningfully ?push the envelope? beyond more traditional forms of conference engagement and participation and as such do not fit into any of the other proposal formats. Examples may include Ignite or pecha-kucha presentations, demonstrations, performances, installations, short-form workshops, unsessions, maker or code-based projects, or interactive experiences. Proposals for experimental sessions should describe for a general scholarly audience the goal or idea of the session and how it will operate, and discuss why the proposed format will be of interest to AoIR delegates. Organizers of experimental sessions will be responsible for supplying any necessary equipment beyond that usually provided for conference presentations, and should be prepared to coordinate closely with the conference committee as necessary to enable a successful presentation of the alternative format. To encourage this kind of submission, we are again offering the ?Halavais Prize for Weirdness? this year for the most interesting and successful submission in a non-traditional format. Doctoral Colloquium: The Association of Internet Researchers believes that its emerging researchers are the best in its disparate constituent fields. In keeping with its commitment to students? scholarship, we continue the tradition of bringing emerging and established scholars together through the AoIR 2016 Doctoral Colloquium. The colloquium offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special, day-long forum, to be convened on 5 October 2016. For many years, this pre-conference event has provided students with the opportunity to a concentrated amount of time with senior scholars to share research projects, address methodological and theoretical challenges, and exchange informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation Interested students should prepare a) a two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues; and b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in this doctoral colloquium and what you hope to get out of it. These are due on or before 15 June 2016. *CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS* In order to increase the diversity of participation in the AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available conference fee waivers and partial travel stipends ($500) per year. The number of fee waivers and travel stipends will depend first of all upon the ability of the conference budget to sustain such waivers (a judgment to be made by the AoIR Executive Committee upon the advice of the AoIR Treasurer and the local organizing committee) as well as upon the quality of the applications for fee waivers. Conference scholarships are made available only to participants who have had papers accepted via the peer review process, and applications are due on 1 June 2016, after acceptances have been announced. More information will be made available regarding the scholarship application process at the conference website: aoir.org/aoir2016. *CONTACT INFORMATION* Please address any questions to the conference chair, Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, aoir2016 [at] aoir [dot] org. ================================ -- Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG) Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Dorotheenstra?e 26 10117 Berlin, Germany www.ibi.hu-berlin.de Research Associate Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) Oberwallstra?e 9 10117 Berlin, Germany www.hiig.de Faculty Associate Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University 23 Everett Street, Second Floor Cambridge, MA 02138, USA cyber.law.harvard.edu p: +49 7541 6009-1321 e: cornelius.puschmann at hiig.de e: cpuschmann at cyber.law.harvard.edu w: cbpuschmann.net From rhill at asis.org Tue Nov 17 10:06:59 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:06:59 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. In-Reply-To: <564B3BDB.8020805@cnri.reston.va.us> References: <564B3BDB.8020805@cnri.reston.va.us> Message-ID: <024101d12149$9c6db620$d5492260$@asis.org> -----Original Message----- From: dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org [mailto:dlib-subscribers-bounces at dlib.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Wilson Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:38 AM To: DLib-subscribers Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The November/December 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The November/December 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains 10 full-length articles and a full-length opinion piece. The 'In Brief' column presents 4 short pieces as well as excerpts from recent press releases. You also can find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in D-Lib's 'Clips and Pointers' column. This month, D-Lib features the University of California Museum of Paleontology, courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley. The opinion piece is: Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts By Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University The articles are: Developing Best Practices in Digital Library Assessment: Year One Update By Joyce Chapman, Duke University Libraries, Jody DeRidder, University of Alabama Libraries and Santi Thompson, University of Houston Libraries The OpenAIRE Literature Broker Service for Institutional Repositories By Michele Artini, Claudio Atzori, Alessia Bardi, Sandro La Bruzzo, Paolo Manghi and Andrea Mannocci, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" -- CNR, Pisa, Italy Using Scenarios in Introductory Research Data Management Workshops for Library Staff By Sam Searle, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Collaborative Construction of Digital Cultural Heritage: A Synthesis of Research on Online Sociability Determinants By Chern Li Liew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Efficient Table Annotation for Digital Articles By Matthias Frey, Graz University of Technology, Austria and Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Austria Structured Affiliations Extraction from Scientific Literature By Dominika Tkaczyk, Bartosz Tarnawski and ?ukasz Bolikowski, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Poland NLP4NLP: The Cobbler's Children Won't Go Unshod By Gil Francopoulo, IMMI-CNRS + TAGMATICA, France; Joseph Mariani, IMMI-CNRS + LIMSI-CNRS, France; Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France MapAffil: A Bibliographic Tool for Mapping Author Affiliation Strings to Cities and Their Geocodes Worldwide By Vetle I. Torvik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PubIndia: A Framework for Analyzing Indian Research Publications in Computer Science By Mayank Singh, Soumajit Pramanik and Tanmoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Semantometrics in Coauthorship Networks: Fulltext-based Approach for Analysing Patterns of Research Collaboration By Drahomira Herrmannova, KMi, The Open University and Petr Knoth, Mendeley Ltd. D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November/December 2015 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From niso-announce at niso.org Thu Nov 19 09:55:01 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:55:01 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Still Time to Register! NISO/NFAIS December 2 Virtual Conference: Semantic Web: What's New and Cool Message-ID: *NISO/NFAIS December 2 Virtual Conference: Semantic Web: What's New and Cool * Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar. *Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015* *Time: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern* *Event webpage: * http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/sem_web/ *ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE* Everything about information resources and tools seems to be in a transitional state. We are building a new kind of digital information environment, dubbed the Semantic Web. This event looks at a spectrum of approaches adopted in developing semantically-enhanced information resources and provides attendees with a better sense of the rate of speed at which this community is moving to achieve the Semantic Web. Presenters will talk about the semantic web landscape, the role linked open data plays in this environment, and current projects underway that demonstrate how the semantic web impacts the library and information community, and what experts in the wider communities are doing to achieve those goals. *CONFIRMED TOPICS & SPEAKERS* * Keynote Address: Matt Turner, Chief Technical Officer, Media and Entertainment, MarkLogic Corporation * International Cultural Informatics Collaborations: Crossing Borders Without Crossing Swords - J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Semantic Web, Linked Data: the Europeana case(s)- Antoine Isaac, R&D Manager, Europeana * Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault - Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC; Bruce Washburn, Software Engineer, OCLC * Getty Vocabularies and the Semantic Web - Joan Cobb, Principal IT Project Manager, Information Technology Services, J. Paul Getty Trust * Building Smarter Books in Browsers with RDFa, Schema.org, and Linked Data: Leveraging Standards & Tools in the Creation of Semantically-Enhanced Reading Systems - Jason A. Clark, Associate Professor and Head of Library Informatics and Computing, Montana State University Libraries * Roundtable Discussion - Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and *closes at 4:00 pm Eastern onTuesday, December 1, 2015* (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package ( http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription ) for all six of the 2015 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.) 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References: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1F47E26AD@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> Message-ID: <2D3DFB539C8F0B49A1D31A47B0C027D1F47E294E@SVKOEXC01.gesis.intra> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Applications - Networking Workshop in Computational Social Science ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Networking Opportunity for International Research in Computational Social Sciences - Workshop for Early Career Postdoctoral Researchers Worldwide Funded by Volkswagen Foundation February 23-26, 2016 held at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Cologne, Germany https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/en/computational-social-sciences.html -------------------- BACKGROUND: VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION GRANTS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE -------------------- The Volkswagen Foundation has released a new funding scheme in the field of computational social science, with a focus on the exploration of socially relevant research questions. The Foundation supports international workshops and summer schools as well as international research co-operations of up to four postdoctoral researchers; any proposal submitted must address socially important topics, which can be explored using (new) tools and methods offered by the "Computational Social Sciences". Project teams can be interdisciplinary, but a social scientist must always be involved. Submission deadlines for proposals for research projects, workshops or summer schools is June 15th, 2016. For further information see https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/en/computational-social-sciences.html -------------------- ABOUT THE NETWORKING WORKSHOP -------------------- In advance of the deadline for applications for cooperative research projects, a networking workshop will be held in Cologne (Germany) on February 23 to 26, 2016. The workshop is directed at postdoctoral researchers worldwide who are interested in collaborating with others in an international cooperative project. The event offers an opportunity to get to know and network with other postdocs - who might turn out to be potential partners for a cooperative project. Furthermore, it will provide space to develop ideas for joint projects. The event will offer both thematic input as well as space to develop cooperative research ideas. Workshop participants will be selected based on this call for applications, see also: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/international-focus/encomputational-social-sciences/computational-social-sciences-networking-opportunity.html -------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Workshop dates: February 23-26, 2016 Application for workshop participation: December 10, 2015 (Proposals for cooperative research projects, workshops, or summer schools due: June 15, 2016) -------------------- TARGET AUDIENCE -------------------- The networking workshop addresses scholars who are either working in the thematic area of "Computational Social Sciences" or who wish to specialize within this field. We particularly welcome researchers from social science disciplines who apply computational tools or methods, or who study socio-technical systems. Researchers from technical disciplines (e.g. computer science) with strong interest in social science research questions are also welcome. Applications for workshop participation are welcome from postdoctoral candidates across the globe (project grant proposals will later need at least one project partner based in Germany). Applicants for the workshop must match the funding criteria for cooperative research projects. In particular, the PhD must have been completed within the last three years prior to the deadline of project applications (after 15 June 2013). For further information see: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/fileadmin/downloads/merkblaetter/MB_107_e.pdf -------------------- APPLICATION DETAILS -------------------- Deadline for submitting short applications to participate in the workshop is December 10, 2015. Applications should be submitted in English and consist of a brief personal motivation to participate (up to two pages) and a CV. Please send these two documents as pdf-version to css(at)volkswagenstiftung.de. The Foundation covers participation in the event as well as the cost of travel and accommodation. Participation in this workshop does in no way affect the chances of succeeding in acquiring a grant for a cooperative project; neither is it a prerequisite for submitting an application for a cooperative project (with deadline on 15 June 2016). -------------------- LOGISTICS -------------------- After a review process, successful applicants will be invited to join the networking workshop in Cologne. Notification of acceptance will be given in January 2016. It is only with this invitation that the cost of travel and accommodation will be covered. -------------------- CONTACT -------------------- SCIENTIFIC LEAD --------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org Twitter: @mstrohm Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 WORKSHOP ORGANISATION --------------------- Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org Twitter: @kwelle Phone: +49 221 47694472 GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION'S CALLS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Anika Haverig VolkswagenStiftung Kastanienallee 35 30519 Hannover GERMANY Tel: 0511 8381-237 Fax: 0511 8381-344 Email: haverig at volkswagenstiftung.de www.volkswagenstiftung.de Dr. Cora Ziegenbalg VolkswagenStiftung Kastanienallee 35 30519 Hannover GERMANY Tel: 0511 8381-291 Fax: 0511 8381-344 Email: ziegenbalg at volkswagenstiftung.de www.volkswagenstiftung.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.icwsm.org/2016/index.php * Workshop Proposals Due: December 7, 2015 * Paper Abstracts Due: January 5, 2016 (by 23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) * Full Papers Due: January 11, 2016 (by 23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) * Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2016 * Conference: May 18-20, 2016 in Cologne, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-16) The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data. ICWSM, now in its 10th year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The accepted papers will be open access and have equal time for a full oral presentation. Full papers will also have the opportunity to display their paper as a poster at the venue. For ICWSM-16, in addition to the usual program of contributed talks, posters and demos, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-16 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference. DISCIPLINES * Computational approaches to social media research including ** Natural language processing ** Text / data mining ** Machine learning ** Image / multimedia processing ** Graphics and visualization ** Distributed computing ** Graph theory and Network Science ** Human-computer interaction * Social science approaches to social media research including ** Psychology ** Sociology and social network analysis ** Communication ** Political science ** Economics ** Anthropology ** Media studies and journalism ** Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) * Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media * Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media * Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media * Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors * Ranking/relevance of social media content and users * Credibility of online content * Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery * Trust; reputation; recommendation systems * Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization * Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior * Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification * Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health * New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques * Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification. * Social innovation and effecting change through social media * Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior * Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDE * Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn) * Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr) * Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia) * Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) * Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups * Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram) * Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers) * User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com) * Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest) * Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare) ---- Eric Gilbert, Michael Macy and Claudia Wagner ICWSM-16 Program Co-chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Fri Nov 13 05:04:37 2015 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:04:37 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science special issue "Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web" is now available on Project MUSE Message-ID: <5645B5B5.8090300@univ-amu.fr> /The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ Volume 39, Number 3/4, September-December 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE://Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Era of the Participatory Social Web/ //Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Elaine M?nard/// The term ?Web 2.0? refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible ? and intensified ? global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers.This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web?s massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors. This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes underway within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. This issue contains: *Preface: Archives, Libraries, and Museums in the Era of the Participatory Social Web *Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Elaine M?nard http://bit.ly/cjils393_4a *Pr?face : Les archives, les biblioth?ques et les mus?es ? l??re du web social participatif *Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Elaine M?nard http://bit.ly/cjils393_4b *Characteristics and Effectiveness of Tags in Public Library Online Public Access Catalogues/Les caract?ristiques et l?efficacit? des balises dans les catalogues publics en ligne des biblioth?ques publiques * Isola Ajiferuke , Jamie Goodfellow , Adeola Opesade http://bit.ly/cjils393_4c** *Influence, Reciprocity, Participation, and Visibility: Assessing the Social Library on Twitter/Influence, r?ciprocit?, participation, et visibilit? : ?valuation de la biblioth?que sociale sur Twitter * * *Lorri Mon , Jisue Lee http://bit.ly/cjils393_4d *?Library 2.0? Viewed through the Prism of the French Librarians? Blogs/La ? Biblioth?que 2.0 ? vue ? travers le prisme des blogs de biblioth?caires fran?ais * * *B?reng?re Stassin http://bit.ly/cjils393_4e *Le /crowdsourcing/ scientifique et patrimonial ? la crois?e de mod?les de coordination et de coop?ration : Le cas des herbiers num?ris?s/Scientific and Heritage Crowdsourcing at the Crossroads of Models of Coordination and Cooperation: The Case of Digital Herbaria * *_ _*Manuel Zacklad , Lisa Chupin http://bit.ly/cjils393_4f** *M?thodologie d?analyse de la participation informatique de l?usager d?un mus?e/Methodology of Analysis of Museum User Computer Involvement * * *Florence Andreacola , Eric SanJuan , Marie-Sylvie Poli http://bit.ly/cjils393_4g** *Lumping (and Splitting) LAMs: The Story of Grouping Libraries, Archives, and Museums/Regroupement (et division) des BAMs : Histoire du regroupement des biblioth?ques, des archives et des mus?es*** * *Cheryl Klimaszewski http://bit.ly/cjils393_4h** *Participation, Collaboration, and Community Building in Digital Repositories/Participation, collaboration et d?veloppement communautaire dans les d?p?ts num?riques * * *Amy Williams http://bit.ly/cjils393_4i** *Social Media in Libraries and Archives: Applied with Caution/Les m?dias sociaux dans les biblioth?ques et les archives : Appliqu?s avec prudence*** * *Chern Li Liew , Shannon Wellington , Gillian Oliver , Reid Perkins http://bit.ly/cjils393_4j -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/en Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apollak at uwo.ca Mon Nov 16 14:23:14 2015 From: apollak at uwo.ca (Angela Michel Pollak) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:23:14 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Second Notice: Call for Proposals: CAIS/ACSI 2016 Conference Message-ID: Second Notice: Call for Proposals: CAIS/ACSI 2016 Conference Conference Theme: Information Science in our Communities Location: Calgary, Alberta (June 1-3, 2016) Deadline for Submission: January 11, 2016 Submit to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences /?conf=cais2016 (The French and English CFP are also posted to http://cais-acsi.ca) ___________ Information Science in our Communities: Reflections on our Work and the People, Places and Institutions Around Us Common bonds. Peculiar ambitions. Surprising outcomes; whether we belong to communities or help create them, the associations, guilds, leagues and interest groups we keep company with serve as many different purposes and pursuits as there are names to describe them. In keeping with the 2016 Congress theme of ?Energizing Communities,? the Canadian Association for Information Science 2016 CFP challenges you to think about information science at the community level, and invites proposals relating to the broad theme of ?Information Science in our Communities: Reflections on our Work and the People, Places and Institutions Around Us.? Whether we work individually or collaboratively, in highly technological or highly social contexts, in the hotbed of contemporary research or on the periphery, information science inevitably wrestles with aspects of community. What do these communities look like? How do they survive (or not) through adversity and challenge? What does community innovation look like, and how does it affect sustainability? We invite papers and proposals representing diverse themes and methods related (but not limited) to conceptualizations of community. Consider the following ideas: ? Discovering and defining communities: locally, nationally, internationally ? Collaboration and independence: within IS contexts and beyond ? Community benefit and engagement ? Community building: opportunities, structures, best practices, learning from the past, visions for the future ? Community participation, service and leadership ? Organizing information for and with communities ? Community research and methods ? Missing and excluded communities ? Differentiation and integration: among groups, professionals, or on personal levels ? Supporting communities, listening to communities ? Traditions and extraordinary changes in IS communities Call for Proposals Proposals may be submitted in English or French. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from professional, academic and student researchers. Types of submissions include: CAIS Papers: 20-minute oral presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of an extended abstract (approximately 1000-1500 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. CAIS Posters: Visual presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed. Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (with a limit of 750 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications. Student- and Practitioner-to-CAIS/ACSI Awards Submissions by graduate students and by practitioners for CAIS Papers (only) will be considered for these awards. Details of the awards, including previous winners, can be found at the CAIS/ACSI website at www.cais-acsi.ca. Submission Deadline for all proposals is January 11, 2016. CAIS submissions will be reviewed using the online EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences /?conf=cais2016). Conference proposals will be refereed by the CAIS Program Committee. Authors will be notified of the decision approximately February 22th, 2016. All presenters must register for the conference. Abstracts will be published on the CAIS/ACSI Website once registration has taken place. Final versions must be submitted no later than April 22th, 2016. Participants are also encouraged to submit full papers to the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliotheconomie. Registration The conference will take place as part of the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta from June 1-3, 2016. Registration will be available online through the Congress website (http://congress2016.ca/register). For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI 2016 Conference Co-chairs. David H. Michels Angela Pollak Conference Co-Chair Conference Co-Chair Public Services Librarian Faculty of Information and Media Studies Sir James Dunn Law Library University of Western Ontario Dalhousie University, 6061 University Avenue London, Ontario, Canada PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H4R2 apollak at uwo.ca 902 494-8856 | david.michels at dal.ca www.AngelaPollak.ca informingfaith.blogspot.com __________________________________ Angela Pollak, PhD Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario apollak at uwo.ca www.AngelaPollak.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chinnant at fsu.edu Mon Nov 16 22:38:52 2015 From: chinnant at fsu.edu (C. Hinnant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:38:52 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Ph.D. Program, School of Information, Florida State University Message-ID: <564AA14C.1070205@fsu.edu> *_Ph.D. Program, School of Information, Florida State University_* *The School of Information at Florida State University is accepting applications for its Ph.D. Program in Information Studies.T*he Ph.D. in Information Studies is a research degree designed to produce astute and creative researchers for academic, corporate, nonprofit, or governmental settings. The faculty at the iSchool are engaged in a broad range of interdisciplinary research and the School has exceeded several million dollars in research funding for each of the past two years. Research sponsors include federal, state, and private sector organizations. This includes funding from the National Science Foundation, Institute for Museum and Library Studies, and Department of Defense. Current faculty members have a wide range of research interests and expertise.These include the following research areas: Social Informatics Digital Youth Health Informatics Health Communication Digital Heritage Information Management Social Media Information Quality Social Computing Educational Informatics Digital Government Big Data and Analytics Information Policy Information Systems Technological Innovation Telecommunications Policy Planning and Evaluation of Information Services and Systems Management of Information-based Organizations Virtual Organizations Information Behavior BioInformatics Information Supporting Scientific Enterprises Information Technologies and Systems Supporting STEM Information Security Privacy Digital Libraries Please examine the faculty directory for a complete listing of faculty and their areas of interests and expertise. http://directory.cci.fsu.edu/ischool-directory/** The Doctor of Philosophy degree is a research degree awarded as the result of independent and comprehensive scholarship in a particular area of information studies. Students become familiar with a wide range of research methods and develop a background in social science and information theory and phenomena, culminating in the completion of the doctoral dissertation. The doctoral program is a campus-based program designed to foster research and teaching collaborations between faculty and doctoral students. Our doctoral graduates hold faculty positions at leading research universities in the United States and abroad. Similarly, our graduates also serve as leaders in a wide variety of organizations in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. We invite you to explore our website, which provides information on our degree programs. Follow the website guide below to help you decide whether the doctoral program in the School of Information at FSU fits your academic, professional, and personal needs. *_How to Apply _*__ We accept applications to the doctoral program for the summer semester and the application deadline is January 15, 2016. General Program Information: http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/academics/graduate/phd/ University & Program Admission Requirements: http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/admissions/graduate/phd/ We look forward to working with you and please do not hesitate to contact the Graduate Student Services by email ( ischooladvising at admin.fsu.edu ) or by phone (850-645-3280) or Dr. Melissa Gross (mgross at fsu.edu ) if you have any questions regarding the program or application process. *_About the School and College_* The School of Information is one of three academic units within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. The School offers Bachelor's degree programs in Information Technology (IT) and Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT); Master's and Specialist degree programs in Information Technology and Library and Information and Studies; and a Ph.D. program in Information Studies. The School of Information began in 1926, was formally founded in 1947, and is nationally ranked among the top information science graduate schools in the country, with a U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Programs in Library and Information Science" ranking of 13th overall, 5th in Youth Services, 3rd in Digital Libraries, and 1st in School Library Media. The new online Masters in Information Technology was recently ranked 20^th by U.S. News and World Report. School of Information faculty have been awarded over $50 million in federal, state, local, and foundation research grants, and maintain a strong connection to the community through various literacy and service initiatives. Cultural diversity is an important goal supported by the School, College, and University. More information about the School of Information is available online at: http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/. The College of Communication and Information is a member of the iSchools organization, and has a student population of approximately 1,300 undergraduates and 500 graduate students with 87 tenured/tenure-track and 25 full-time non-tenure-track faculty members. CCI recently completed a new strategic plan and is financially well-positioned to invest in opportunities for innovative ideas in support of the plan. CCI's research portfolio has increased significantly in recent years, and is poised for continued strategic growth. The College is a leader on the campus, and is nationally recognized for its distance and online education programs. *_About FSU and the Surrounding Community_* Florida State University is a leading research university and part of the State University System in Florida. It has a student body of over 41,000, and has been designated a research university with very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation. FSU offers more than 300 different programs of study, and also has nationally recognized programs in the sciences, medicine, law, and business. FSU is located in Tallahassee, a metropolitan community of approximately 375,000 which has been rated by Livability as one of the 50 best places to live in the United States. There are numerous opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts in the Florida Panhandle, and Tallahassee is situated among many rich historical and natural resources, including easy access to some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. Tallahassee has a high quality public school system, and provides many opportunities for art, culture, and music enthusiasts. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Tue Nov 17 08:18:17 2015 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:18:17 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Archival Education and Research Institute 2016: Call for Applications Now Open Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate posts. It is with great pleasure that we announce that the eighth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) will be hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, USA from July 8 to July 12, 2016. Applications are now being accepted via the AERI 2016 website (http://aeri2016.kent.edu). The Institute is sponsored by the Archival Education and Research Initiative, which is a collaborative effort amongst academic institutions to support the growth of a new generation of academics in archival and recordkeeping education and research who are versed in contemporary issues and knowledgeable of the work being conducted by colleagues. The initiative seeks to promote state-of-the-art in scholarship in Archival Studies, broadly conceived, as well as to encourage curricular and pedagogical innovation in archival education locally and worldwide (http://aeri.website). Some brief notes on the call for participation and logistics for AERI 2016 Expectations of attendees: AERI welcomes a wide variety of scholars at different stages of their academic and professional careers, including doctoral students at all stages in their programs, faculty and postdoctoral scholars engaged in research and pedagogy in the archival studies field, and practitioners with interests in conducting and publishing research in conceptual, theoretical, and empirical domains. The AERI experience is intensive and immersive for most participants, with expectations that attendees will commit to the full week of activities and be active contributors to the conversation via presentation of current work. For those who may not be able to attend the full week, we will offer day registration for the first time, with the expectation that even our day registrants will engage with the AERI community via a paper or poster presentation, moderation of a session, or participation in a workshop. Applications for full week registration are now open; day registration will begin on April 15, 2016. Cost of attendance: Participants of the AERI meeting will pay $350 for the week. As in the past, this fee will include the cost of dormitory housing, breakfast and lunch, receptions, and the faculty and student dinners that we have typically covered in the past. Expenses that will be paid separately by the participant will include parking (if needed), optional field trips, dinners on your own (including any mentoring dinner at local Kent restaurants), transportation to/from local airports, and any additional nights at the dormitory beyond the five nights covered by the attendance fee. Day registration fees have not been determined yet, but should be an affordable option as well (the fee will include any receptions on the day of registration, but will not include other meals covered in the full-week registration fee or housing in the dormitory). Conference facilities: Most AERI sessions will be held in the University Library building, which is also home to the School of Library and Information Science. Our building features many classrooms, meeting spaces, and places for plenaries and receptions. And the Library is mere steps away from the Kent Student Center, where you will find the University bookstore, casual dining, and the cafeteria where attendees will have breakfast. Housing: Students and faculty will stay on campus at a KSU dormitory, in either singles or shared double rooms with private bathrooms. Attendees who would prefer more luxurious accommodations are encouraged to look at the Kent State University Hotel, close by in downtown Kent: http://www.kentstatehotel.com. There will be an option for additional nights at the dormitory before and after the conference for attendees coming from long distances who would like the time to acclimate, or for those who need to stay an additional night due to their flight schedule. Transportation: Kent State University is within a day?s drive for many of our AERI attendees coming from U.S. Midwest or Northeast destinations. For those who will be flying to Ohio, there are two possible airports: 1) Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport and 2) Akron-Canton Regional Airport. Hopkins will be most convenient for our international travelers and those coming from the West Coast, while Akron-Canton is convenient for those coming from U.S. Eastern and Midwestern destinations. Because transportation to and from the campus can be quite expensive ($60-75 each way), the School will facilitate shared rides by posting a wiki page that will allow people arriving/departing around the same time to share a cab or private car. Local dining: Downtown Kent is currently experiencing a revival, kickstarted by the University?s development of a hotel and conference center in the area. Kent features numerous restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and shopping destinations (see http://www.mainstreetkent.org) where you can take an opportunity to relax in between sessions and on free evenings. Field trips: Exciting destinations, to be confirmed in the new year, which are sure to enrich your AERI experience! On your application, conference organizers may ask you to fill out a preference survey to determine demand for particular destinations such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (in nearby Canton, Ohio). New in 2016: ? As noted above, AERI will welcome attendees from the professional community by introducing a day registration option. Meant for those practitioners who wish to engage with the AERI community, but are not able to attend the entire conference, this option will give working archivists with research and pedagogical interests the opportunity to join the AERI conversation! ? Roundtables to gather together attendees in small groups for informal conversations during the conference, with hopes of facilitating new projects and research collaborations on topics of mutual interest. ? An unconference session and lightning talks! Returning in 2016: ? Inspired by the successful mini-tours of campus libraries and archives held at last year?s AERI, this year will feature several quick opportunities to learn more about Kent State?s Fashion Museum, University Archives and Special Collections, and the May 4 Visitor?s Center. ? Prizes for best paper and poster ? A variety of mentoring opportunities Watch the website for more details about these opportunities! Application Timeline November 16, 2015: Call for participation and submission form available via the AERI 2016 website (aeri2016.kent.edu). Early applications are strongly encouraged! February 1, 2016: Deadline for receipt of applications March 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance to attend AERI 2016; registration opens April 15, 2016: Registration closes for full week participants; call for participation for day registrants begins May 1, 2016: Preliminary program posted to AERI 2016 website June 1, 2016: Final AERI program available on website AERI 2016 looks forward to a dynamic conference that brings together national and international scholars engaged in Archival Studies. Please send inquiries to kgracy at kent.edu. Additional information about the conference will be available soon at aeri2016.kent.edu, and will also be distributed via our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/aeri2016/). We also encourage everyone to use the official conference Twitter hashtag (#aeri2016) to communicate their enthusiasm! Sincerely, Karen F. Gracy Program Co-Chair, AERI 2016 Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University kgracy at kent.edu Leisa Gibbons Program Co-Chair, AERI 2016 Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University lgibbon3 at kent.edu *********************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jyoon at usf.edu Wed Nov 18 15:27:37 2015 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:27:37 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Assistant Professor Position at USF Message-ID: University of South Florida School of Information Assistant Professor Closing date: Open until filled The University of South Florida, School of Information (see http://si.usf.edu) is inviting applications to join our faculty in the area of data science. This position is at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track), and we encourage recent PhDs and ABDs with a strong expectation of completing the dissertation by Aug, 2016 to apply. The successful candidate will join our faculty in a highly collegial environment that promotes collaboration amongst our school faculty and other members of the university community. We seek colleagues who can deepen and extend our emerging strengths in data science and analytics. We see this as comprising a broad domain of skills in the areas of: computational social science; data mining; visualization; analytic approaches such as NLP, IR, machine learning and predictive analytics; tools and socio-technical process development for scientific and communities collaboration, data access and data retrieval; and other possible areas emphasizing analysis and representation of large scale data. Competitive applicants will demonstrate how their research interests both connect to and extend current faculty interests and program objectives. The ability to obtain research grants and other external funding will be considered a competitive advantage in our evaluations, as will evidence of teaching experience and a commitment to teaching excellence. A publishing record of impactful scholarship is expected. The University of South Florida (http://www.usf.edu) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success, with over 240 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialty, and doctoral levels. USF is a Top 50 research university among both public and private institutions nationwide in total research expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation. Serving nearly 48,000 students, the USF System has an annual budget of $1.5 billion and an annual economic impact of $4.4 billion. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. The USF School of Information (SI) (http://si.usf.edu) is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences (http://cas.usf.edu), which consists of 23 academic departments and a number of centers and institutes that are highly collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature. SI enjoys a strong tradition of educating information professionals in a variety of settings. Three degree programs are currently offered in the School: a M.A. in Library and Information Science, which has been continually accredited by the American Library Association since 1974; a new STEM-based MS in Intelligence Studies, which offers concentrations in Cyber Intelligence and Strategic Intelligence; and a B.S. in Information Studies that integrates a strong foundation in information science with information technology to emphasize how people interact with information and technology. The following are the required and preferred qualifications of potential candidates: Required: ? A Ph.D. in LIS, data science, or a related discipline; or evidence of completion of the Ph.D. by August 2016. ? Evidence of expertise in applying data science and data analytics to digital librarianship. ? Demonstrated extensive involvement in data science's professional community. ? A record of research in data science, including presentations, publications, and similar forms of scholarly engagement. ? Demonstrated ability to make extensive use of innovative distance learning technologies to support their teaching. Preferred: ? Certification or recognized professional credentials in an area of data sciences and analytics. ? Ability to advise undergraduate and graduate students, and participate in shared governance. ? Evidence of ability to secure extramural research funding. Review will begin immediately, with preference for applicants submitting by December 18, 2015. The review process will continue until the position is filled. Appointment is expected for Aug. 2016 (Fall 2016 semester). Applicants who wish to apply for this position should go to: http://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/human-resources/careers/browse-apply-for-job-openings.aspx and follow the links and instructions for applying for the faculty line (position # 13861). When applying, required elements include a cover letter, CV, and a list of the names and contact information for three references. Optional material may be included with a URL for online portfolio materials. Additional questions about this position should be directed to the search committee chair Dr. Steven Walczak, swalczak at usf.edu. Conclusion of this search is subject to final budget approval. USF is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer, and is committed to diversity in hiring, complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and is a Public Records Agency. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. For ADA accommodations, please contact Dr. Walczak or Dina Castellon (813-974-3522) at least five working days prior to need. -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 From kimsch at illinois.edu Thu Nov 19 11:14:46 2015 From: kimsch at illinois.edu (Schmidt, Kimberly Rae) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:14:46 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities at Illinois Message-ID: The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), the iSchool at Illinois, is actively recruiting high-quality doctoral students who are interested in becoming active partners in our research enterprise. Admitted candidates in good standing typically receive four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. GSLIS?s flexible program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. Additional information about the PhD program is available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or by contacting lis-apply at illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2015. -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Fri Nov 20 05:16:19 2015 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:16:19 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: Special Issue on "The influence of search engines on knowledge production" (Aslib Journal of Information Management) Message-ID: The influence of search engines on knowledge production Special issue call for papers from Aslib Journal of Information Management The influence of search engines on knowledge production This special issue, to be published in 2016, is edited by Fredrik ?str?m, Lund University (Sweden) and Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany). What is the focus of this special issue? Search engines are nowadays the major means for finding information. They are not only the predominant type of search tool on the Web, but Web search has also substituted other forms of searching for information outside the Web. However, search engines are not only ways of finding information, but also shape the production of both information content and knowledge. This influence can be seen at least at two levels: (1) in the process of researching information needed for producing content, (2) in producing content in a way that it intended to increase its visibility in search engines. For this special issue, we invite research papers focusing on search engines? influence on the production of both information content and knowledge, as well as content management in areas like civil society, libraries, education, scholarly communication, news, research data, knowledge organization, encyclopedias and cultural heritage. Potential topics include but are not limited to: ? Visibility as a requirement for successful content ? Qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse search engines? influence on knowledge production; the use of digital methods ? Theoretical approaches to search engines? role in knowledge production ? Knowledge production in different professional contexts (e.g., news, libraries, cultural heritage) ? Gender issues related to knowledge production ? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ? Making collections visible ? Visibility of collections in specialized search engines (e.g., Google Scholar) ? Gaming ranking systems (e.g., search engines) ? Manipulation of search engine ranking criteria ? Changing roles of knowledge-creating professionals (e.g., journalists) and organizations ? Ethical issues related to knowledge and information content production activities adapting to search engines and SEO Submissions All methodological approaches are welcome. Case studies and proof-of-concept studies should present new and unique findings and highlight future research possibilities and developments. Opinion pieces and review articles will not be considered for the special issue. Papers should be 4,000 to 9,000 words in length (including references) and in accordance with the journal?s author guidelines. For all additional information prior to submission, please contact Fredrik ?str?m (fredrik.astrom at ub.lu.se) or Dirk Lewandowski (dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de). Please submit to Aslib Journal of Information Management using ScholarOne Manuscripts, our online submission and peer review system. Visit the author guidelines for more information. About the Journal Aslib Journal of Information Management (AJIM; previously: Aslib Proceedings, ISSN: 2050-3806) is a peer-reviewed international journal providing key insights into the latest international developments in the research and practice of information management and information science. The journal is the major publication for ASLIB ? the Association for Information Management in the United Kingdom - a membership association for people who manage information and knowledge in organisations and the information industry. Information about the journal can be found here. Schedule dates and submission deadlines Paper submission: 30 November 2015 Notice of review results: 30 January 2016 Revisions due: 30 March 2016 Publication: Aslib Journal of Information Management, volume 68, issue 3, 2016 (June 2016) See more at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=6186#sthash.CfWqgp5G.dpuf -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM ********* Neue B?cher: Barrierefreie Informationssystme http://www.amazon.de/Barrierefreie-Informationssysteme-Zug?nglichkeit-Behinderung-Informationsgesellschaft/dp/3110337096/ Suchmaschinen verstehen http://www.amazon.de/Suchmaschinen-verstehen-Xpert-press-Dirk-Lewandowski/dp/366244013X From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Fri Nov 20 05:38:57 2015 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:38:57 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) Message-ID: Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) co-located with 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2006) 17 March 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA http://sauce2016.dei.unipd.it Nowadays, IIR continues to increase in complexity: user tasks and needs are demanding; data and information systems are rapidly evolving and greatly heterogeneous; and the interaction between users and IR systems is much more articulated. For example, consider what Web search is today: highly diversified results are returned from Web pages, news, social media, image and video search, products and more, and all are merged through adaptive strategies driven by current and previous user-systems interactions. As a result, experimental evaluation needs to appropriately model these evolving tasks, needs, data sources and user interactions. An additional challenge pertains to the anticipated outcome of IIR research and application. It is no longer sufficient to focus solely on precision, recall and satisfaction: successful IIR systems must engage, inform, and relate to users, taking into account single session and more long-term use and re-use. To progress current evaluation methodologies and ensure they are able to effectively support the development of next generation IIR systems, one of the most compelling prospects is to bridge system-oriented and user-oriented evaluation methods. Both methodological approaches have their advantages and drawbacks: while system-centered methods ensure greater internal validity, they may fail to take into account user and contextual factors that influence IIR; user-oriented methods may better approximate actual user behavior, affect and cognition, but provide less experimental control of independent variables. The goal of this workshop is to unite system- and user-centered IIR researchers for the purposes of: ? Sharing different user-centered and system-centred research methods, measures, and tools in order to foster knowledge exchange; ? Exploring the addition of user-centered evaluation strategies to system-oriented studies, and vice versa; and ? Initiating collaborations between user- and system-oriented researchers to further IIR research. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop day: March 17, 2016 Conference days: March 13-17, 2016 Call for Position Papers General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics: ? User-centred approaches that incorporate elements of system-centred evaluation ? System-centred approaches that incorporate elements of user-centred evaluation ? Phenomenon of interest or problems in interactive information retrieval that could be best approached using a combination of user- and system-centred evaluation ? Descriptions of research or system design that are incorporate system- and user-centred methods ? Correlation between system-centred and user-centred evaluation ? Prediction of user behaviour, satisfaction, engagement, ... from system-centred evaluation Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template. Papers should be two-four pages (maximum) in length. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee through double-blind peer review, i.e. authors must be anonymized. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sauce2016 Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. Organizers Heather L. O'Brien, University of British Columbia, Canada, h.obrienubc.ca Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy ferrodei.unipd.it Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba, Japan hideoslis.tsukuba.ac.jp Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany dirk.lewandowskihaw-hamburg.de Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia, paul.thomascsiro.au Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK, cornelis.vanrijsbergenglasgow.ac.uk -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM ********* Neue B?cher: Barrierefreie Informationssystme http://www.amazon.de/Barrierefreie-Informationssysteme-Zug?nglichkeit-Behinderung-Informationsgesellschaft/dp/3110337096/ Suchmaschinen verstehen http://www.amazon.de/Suchmaschinen-verstehen-Xpert-press-Dirk-Lewandowski/dp/366244013X -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be Fri Nov 20 04:30:51 2015 From: aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be (Aarnoud Rommens) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:30:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_Poetics_of_the_Algorithm=2C_University_?= =?utf-8?q?of_Li=C3=A8ge_=28ULg=29=2C_Belgium=2C_June_16-18=2C_2016?= In-Reply-To: <1532291507.16464425.1448011705054.JavaMail.zimbra@ulg.ac.be> Message-ID: <1083778339.16465749.1448011851591.JavaMail.zimbra@ulg.ac.be> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** (French version below) Call for Papers Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ?Unidentified? Media An International Conference organized by the ACME Research Group University of Li?ge (ULg), Belgium June 16-17-18, 2016 Summary Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, Digitality, and Unidentified Media is an international, bilingual conference hosted by the University of Liege (Belgium; 16-17-18 June 2016) with a focus on interactive fiction, apps, web/media art (history), digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ?new? media. The conference will host workshops, round table discussions, panels, performances, and presentations of papers. We invite scholars, artists, writers, programmers, (game) developers, practitioners, designers, etc. to participate in what we hope to be an extraordinary event. - Conference website: https://poeticsofthealgorithm.wordpress.com/ - Please send abstracts (500 words maximum) by 20 December to: acme.bdresearch at gmail.com Confirmed Speakers - Markku Eskelinen. Independent scholar and experimental writer of ergodic prose and critical essays. Founding editor of Game Studies and Cybertext Yearbook. - Sarah Kember. Professor of New Technologies of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. - Ilan Manouach. Artist, writer, and musician. - Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. English writer and online pioneer in webcomics and British small press. Lecturer in Narrative & Interaction Design at The University of Hertfordshire. - Gregory Steirer. Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. - WREK (Olivier Deprez, Adolpho Avril, Miles O?Shea). Experimental artistic collective merging woodcut, installation art, performance, film, and comics. Description It seems that narrative today is undergoing a radical change in its ?source code.? New technologies are changing the way texts are produced, distributed, viewed and read. The conference Poetics of the Algorithm intends to chart the implications of this shift. What does it mean that through digital technologies we can now experience on the surface of a single (touch) screen previously distinct media, artefacts and events such as literature in codex form, comic books, exhibitions, films, photographs, visual art and so on? Has medium-specificity become an obsolete notion given that binary code and algorithms seem to bypass material constraints? The phenomenon of adapting/remediating ?low tech? works into digital format is instructive in this regard. Already an unconventional graphic narrative in codex form, Richard McGuire?s Here for example was adapted into a so-called ?enhanced edition? for the iPad. Does the notion of ?enhancement? entail that the hardback version is in some way inferior? Speaking of the app-version of Here, what does it mean that the simulation of travel in ?deep time? no longer proceeds from turning the page but from touching the screen, zooming, and pinching? Does the meaning change after a graphic novel in book format has been translated into an application for digital devices? How is the creation of the work impacted, as a work by a single author is transformed into a collaborative project with software designers and a team of coders? Next to mastery of his or her craft, must the artist also be ?code-literate? today to matter? Furthermore, this shift also pertains to the ?system requirements? of the reader-participant of digital media. Indeed, is touch?with the gestural protocols of swiping, pinching, and zooming?a radically new paradigm revising what is narratable, visible, and performable, making the world an unfamiliar place again after having lived in a world that could be ?read like a book?? What new habits of thought and bodily engagement are brought into being? These questions immediately bring us to the politics of post-media poetics, an issue the conference will also raise. How to think constructively about the relation between the backbreaking, (often neo-colonial) exploitative labour that makes western new media possible and our shiny new hardware so hostile to dirt and dust? Can modes of ?slow,? ?grimy,? ?artisanal? cultural production ('old school' book art, lettering, the smears of paint, the woodcut, etc.) be read as critiques of our digitized, supposedly ?accelerationist? epoch, and/or are they symptoms of post-media nostalgia? Lastly, if the material configuration of literature, comics, art, and other media are shifting, how should this be reflected in our methodology? Should research, critique and scholarship aspire to become a multi-media experience? What are adequate forms for the digital humanities to respond to these challenges? These are but some of the questions the conference will raise. Additional areas include, but are not limited to: - Intermediality, transmediality, remediation, media archeology - The notion of the author vs new media creation as a collaborative production - Gaming, comics and narrative - Digital comics, digital experiments with the language of comics, web-comics - interactive literature - Memes as (anti-)narrative - From Being-in-the-world to Being-with-Siri/Cortana - Smooth screens or rough textures: drawing on tablets, or drawing on paper, with pen, ink, paint - ?Old media? in times of high-tech algorithmic hyper-capitalism - The art of coding, coding art - Database and narrative logics - Internet and the digital archive - Phenomenology of the digital - Modes of narration: Point-and-click, scrolling, touch, gestures narration - Poetics and emerging conventions and genres in digital media storytelling - The line between gaming, the ?app-novel?, interactive fiction - As of yet ?unidentified? highly experimental media - Media literacy, illiteracy - Capitalism, new media, political economy - Media obsolescence, garbage, electronic debris, lost codes - Dirt and the machine, malfunctions, glitches, static, noise, tactics, hacks - Digital avant-gardes - Art, autonomy and the app-store - Media art (history) - The coder-researcher, new research practices, - ? Submissions: Please send abstracts (500 words maximum) by 20 December to acme.bdresearch at gmail.com We are greatly looking forward to your proposals. You can visit the conference website (https://poeticsofthealgorithm.wordpress.com/) for more information, and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. ACME Comics Research Group University of Liege (ULg) Place du 20-Aout, 7 4000 Li?ge http://www.acme.ulg.ac.be/ Contact: acme.bdresearch at gmail.com ----------------------------------- Version fran?aise: Po?tiques de l?algorithme : objets m?diatiques ? non-identifi?s ? Un colloque international organis? par ACME, groupe de recherche en bande dessin?e Universit? de Li?ge (ULg), Belgique du 16 au 18 juin 2016 Introduction Le colloque international Po?tiques de l?algorithme : objets m?diatiques ? non-identifi?s ? aura lieu ? l?Universit? de Li?ge (Belgique ; du 16 au 18 juin 2016) et se penchera sur la fiction interactive, les apps, la bande dessin?e num?rique, les jeux vid?o, la litt?rature ?lectronique et ces autres ? nouveaux ? m?dias. La conf?rence accueillera des communications ainsi que des tables-rondes, ateliers et panels. Nous invitons ? participer des chercheurs aussi bien que des artistes, auteurs, programmeurs, d?veloppeurs, praticiens, designers, etc. Description Le ? code-source ? du r?cit et de nos mani?res de raconter est depuis quelques ann?es l?objet d?un changement radical. Les nouvelles technologies transforment la mani?re dont les textes sont produits, distribu?s, lus et vus. Le colloque Po?tiques de l?algorithme propose de documenter les cons?quences d?un tel changement. Des artefacts et des ?v?nements tels que de la litt?rature au format codex, des albums de bandes dessin?es, des expositions, des films, des photographies, voire l?art plastique se retrouvent d?sormais ? port?e d?un m?me ?cran (tactile). Comment les technologiques num?riques ont-elles transform? des m?dias auparavant per?us comme distincts ? La notion de sp?cificit? m?diatique serait-elle devenue obsol?te depuis que le code binaire et les algorithmes permettent de contourner ces contraintes mat?rielles ? Le ph?nom?ne d?adaptation ou de rem?diation d??uvres low tech vers le format num?rique en dit d?j? long ? ce sujet. Une bande dessin?e d?j? peu conventionnelle sous format papier, Here de Richard McGuire, fut par exemple adapt? dans une version dite ? am?lior?e ? pour tablette. Est-ce que l?id?e d?? am?lioration ? implique que la version papier est inf?rieure d?une mani?re ou d?une autre ? Et en regardant la version num?rique de Here, quels changements cette conversion implique-t-elle pour la simulation d?un voyage dans les abysses du ? temps profond ?, qui ne s?op?re plus en tournant la page mais en touchant, zoomant et balayant l??cran des doigts ? La transpositiondu format livresque en application num?rique affecte-elle la signification du roman graphique ? Comment la cr?ation de l??uvre elle-est touch?e par ce changement, puisque le travail d?un seul auteur devient celui d?un projet collaboratif impliquant des concepteurs de logiciel, des codeurs et des programmeurs ? Outre la ma?trise de son m?tier, l?artiste doit-il aujourd?hui ?tre capable de lire et de traiter du code informatique ? De plus, ce changement participe aussi de la modification de l?attitude du consommateur de m?dias num?riques, par rapport ? un lecteur classique plus passif. En effet, est-ce que le toucher et les protocoles gestuels tels que le zoom, le pinch et le balayage entra?nent un paradigme radicalement nouveau, transformant le visible et le dicible, refaisant du monde un lieu ?trange et m?connaissable ? Quelles sont les nouvelles habitudes physiques et cognitives qui ?mergent dans un tel contexte ? Ces questions nous m?nent directement ? la politique d?une po?tique post-m?dia, un des axes principaux de cette conf?rence. Comment penser de fa?on constructive la relation entre l'exploitation ?conomique (souvent n?ocoloniale) qui rend possible l'existence de ces nouveaux m?dias et leurs beaux mat?riaux brillants qui semblent justement ?tre r?fractaires au d?chet et ? la crasse ? Les modes de production lents, sales et artisanaux (typographie, livres d'artiste, taches de peinture, gravure, etc.) peuvent-ils ?tre lus comme des critiques d?une ?re num?rique suppos?e acc?l?rationniste, ou bien s?agit-il de sympt?mes d?une nostalgie post-m?dia ? Enfin, si la configuration mat?rielle de la litt?rature, de la bande dessin?e, de l?art et d?autres m?dias est en train de changer, comment ce changement devrait-il se r?percuter dans notre approche m?thodologique ? Est-ce que la recherche et la critique devraient aspirer ? une existence multi-m?dia ? Comment les humanit?s num?riques peuvent-elles r?pondre ? ces d?fis ? Il ne s?agit l? que d?une poign?e de questions que le colloque esp?re soulever. D?autres pistes ? explorer incluent, mais ne sont pas limit?es ? : - Intermedialit?, transmedialit?, rem?diation, arch?ologie des m?dias - La notion d?auteur vs. la cr?ation num?rique comme production collaborative, ou la d?l?gation de l?auteur ? une ?quipe de production (? outsourcing ?) - Jeu vid?o, bande dessin?e et narration - Bande dessin?e num?rique, exp?rimentations num?riques avec le langage de la bande dessin?es, webcomics - Litt?rature interactive - L?(anti)-narration des m?mes - L??tre-au-monde vs. l??tre-avec-Siri/Cortana - ?crans plats ou textures rugueuses : dessiner sur tablette et dessiner sur papier avec plume, encre, et peinture - M?dias ?obsol?tes? ? l??re d?un hyper-capitalisme algorithmique - L?art de coder et faire de l?art avec du code - Logiques (non)-s?quentielles : narration et structure en bases de donn?es - Internet et archives num?riques - Ph?nom?nologie du num?rique - Gestuelles du r?cit num?rique : point-and-click, scrolling, touch - Po?tiques, conventions et genres de la narration num?rique - Fronti?re entre jeu vid?o, app-novel et narration interactive - M?dias exp?rimentaux ?non-identifi?s? - Capitalisme et nouveaux m?dias ; ?conomie politique - L?obsolescence m?diatique, d?chet, d?bris ?lectroniques, codes perdus - Salet? et technologie : pannes, bugs, d?formations, bruit, piratage - Les avant-gardes num?riques - Art, autonomie et l?app-store - Le chercheur-codeur, nouvelles pratiques de recherche, big data et humanit?s num?riques - ? Modalit?s de soumission des communications Les propositions de communication (500 mots maximum) devront nous ?tre adress?es, avant le 20 d?cembre 2015, ? l?adresse suivante acme.bdresearch at gmail.com Vous pouvez trouver plus d'informations sur le site web de la conf?rence website et n'h?sitez pas ? prendre contact avec nous pour toute information suppl?mentaire. ACME Comics Research Group University of Liege (ULg) Place du 20-Aout, 7 4000 Li?ge http://www.acme.ulg.ac.be/ Contact: acme.bdresearch at gmail.com ? Dr. Aarnoud Rommens Post-Doctoral Fellow (BeIPD-COFUND) ACME Research Group Facult? de Philosophie et Lettres University of Liege (Ulg) Place du 20-Ao?t 7, B?t. A2 4/47 4000 Li?ge, Belgium aarnoud.rommens at ulg.ac.be tel. +32(0)495/326237 From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Thu Nov 19 20:17:27 2015 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy Sugimoto) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:17:27 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Funded doctoral position in scholarly communication Message-ID: The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to recruit an exceptional doctoral student with interest in issues related to scholarly communication for the IDEASc fellowship program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and hosted by the Department of Information and Library Science (ILS) and the University Libraries at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). IDEASc ? Integrated Doctoral Education with Application to Scholarly Communication ? is a fellowship program designed to further scholarship and practice in the area of scholarly communication by integrating practical experience in the library with the research and classroom experiences that comprise the traditional education of doctoral students. The Fellow will be provided with intensive mentoring, wide-ranging opportunities to work and conduct research in scholarly communication, and comprehensive training in pedagogy, curricular development, and in-class instruction. Our efforts are motivated by an awareness of the complex transformations of library roles in the scholarly communication environment and the increasing need to educate future LIS faculty with an integrated understanding of research and practice to meet the needs of future MLS students. The Fellow will receive a stipend of $23,000, health insurance, tuition, travel assistance, and funding for publication in an open access journal for three consecutive years as part of this program. The Fellow will also have an opportunity to work in the library with experienced and innovative librarians and with leading faculty studying the diverse range of issues related to scholarly communication. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, digital libraries, scientometrics, intellectual property, metadata, social media metrics, university presses, data curation, digital humanities, scholarly publishing, institutional repositories, and copyright. Additional information can be found on the project website: http:info.ils.indiana.edu/IDEASc Indiana University Bloomington is particularly well-situated to support this proposal given its campus-wide focus on issues of scholarly communication as well as the strengths of both the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the Department of Information and Library Science in this domain. This is a time of systemic change in how institutions create, sustain, and provide access to information, and libraries and LIS professionals are uniquely situated to influence the direction of this change. The project will graduate doctoral students who are not only familiar with issues of scholarly communication but will also, as leaders in the field, understand scholarly communication from the varying perspectives of practice, education, and research. Applicants will need to apply to and meet the requirements for the ILS Ph.D. program. Information on the Ph.D. application process can be found on the departmental website (http://ils.indiana.edu/phd/). Students will additionally be asked to send their personal statement, writing sample, and CV/resume directly to Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto (sugimoto [at] indiana.edu). *Applications should be received by January 1, 2016 for full consideration.* -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Associate Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Nov 19 18:12:23 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:12:23 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP for Workshop on Usefulness of interactive IR systems at CHIIR 2016 Message-ID: <4BD2A950-3078-4443-812F-6F09CD8F5054@rutgers.edu> ################################ 1st Workshop on Usefulness of Interactive IR Systems CALL FOR PAPERS In conjunction with the CHIIR 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 13-17 March 2016 Workshop 2016: http://www.gesis.org/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/workshop-usefulness-of-interactive-ir-systems/ CHIIR 2016: http://sigir.org/chiir2016 ################################ --------- Important dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop date: March 7, 2016 --------- Contact Claus-Peter Klas GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Contact: claus-peter.klas at gesis.org Motivation Information Retrieval (IR) systems aim at helping a user to solve an information seeking problem. There is a long-standing tradition in IR research to measure the quality of an IR system in terms of the relevance of the documents returned (so-called Cranfield paradigm). However, due to the high interactivity of current IR systems it turned out that pure relevance-based measures fail to capture many factors that should be taken into account for IR evaluations, such as learning, task completion and effort. Current IR research therefore started to "take a broader perspective of the information seeking process to explicitly include users, tasks, and contexts in a dynamic setting" (Cole et al. 2009). This novel paradigm in IR evaluation expands the perspective to the entire search process instead of just evaluating single search results (cp. Dumais 2012). In addition, modern digital libraries offer more functionality besides search e.g. - browsing relations, recommender, storing and structuring information, sharing information -- broadening the user-system interaction possibilities. These interactions lead to more valuable data for a better understanding of user needs and contexts and what is useful or not. The notion of usefulness was first introduced by Cole et al. (2009) as a general criterion evaluating "how well the user is able to achieve their goal". However, there is still a lack of computational usefulness metrics that can be taken to evaluate interactive IR systems. The main goal of the workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing novel approaches that might contribute to an approximation of usefulness in interactive information retrieval. The workshop aims at bringing together experts from both 'user' and 'system' oriented information retrieval for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion how to tackle the evaluation of interactive IR from the perspective of usefulness. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches for measuring usefulness of interactive IR systems. More specifically, we address questions such as: * What is usefulness and how can it be measured? * How can logging tools and frameworks look like to better capture usefulness? * How can usefulness be evaluated? * What can usefulness contribute to the improvement of interactive IR systems? Workshop Topics Contributions are solicited on, but not limited to, following topics: * Evaluation of interactive information retrieval * Information seeking behavior * Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization * Logging frameworks for sessions and tasks * Analyzing user behavior Format, Structure and Audience The format of the workshop should reflect a form of grass root movement, meaning to go bottom up in order to identify real measurements, to analyze existing logs and the gap in logs to measure usefulness along several dimensions. The workshop will be a full-day workshop with a keynote speech and paper sessions laying the ground of understanding in the morning. The paper sessions will focus on the following areas: * Theoretical measures for usefulness * How can usefulness be observed? - Tools - Case studies - Evaluation methods and metrics For the afternoon we propose a world cafe format to enable brainstorming of ideas and deeper discussions of the approaches presented in the morning. We intend to have discussion rounds of 15-30 minutes at max. four tables which are moderated by the organizers and/or participants. The participants should move from table to table after each round. In the final session the discussion result will be presented by the moderators. It workshop is intended for around 20 researchers in the field of interactive information retrieval and digital libraries and librarians interested in a better understanding of users and user needs and provide better system support to enhance the digital libraries systems. Submissions Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the ACM template, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uiirs2016 . All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Output Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073). This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). All accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Program Committee * Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK * Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, IT * Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the SocialSciences, Germany * Peter Mutschke, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany * Chirag Shah, Rudgers University, USA References * Cole, M., Liu, J., Belkin, N. J., Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J., Liu, C., Zhjang, J., Zhang, X. (2009): Usefulness as the Criterion for Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval. Proc. HCIR, 1-4. * Dumais, S. (2012): Whole-session evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. Compilation of Homework, NII Shonan Workshop, Oct 8-12, 2012, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sdumais/niishonanworkshop-web/NII-Shonan-CompiledHomework_Final.pdf **** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Thu Nov 19 18:26:39 2015 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:26:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Extended deadline: November 22 --- WorldCIST'2016: 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Message-ID: <201511192326.tAJNQvY8015782@mail.asis.org> --------- WorldCIST'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Recife, PE, Brazil 22th-24th of March 2016 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'16 - 4th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies ( http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ ), to be held at Recife, PE, Brazil, 22 - 24 March 2016, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'16. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Health Informatics (HIS); K) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); L) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. -Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 27th of December 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.507) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.698) - Computers in Human Behavior (IF: 2.694) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213) - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IF: 1.841) - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.812) - Telemedicine and e-Health (IF: 1.668) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 1.550) - Engineering Computations (IF: 1.495) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 1.482) - Telematics and Informatics (IF: 1.120) - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (IF: 1.084) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 1.021) - Int. Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IF: 0.746) - IET Software (IF: 0.595) - Knowledge Management Research & Practice (IF: 0.554) - AI Communications (IF: 0.547) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0.475) - Journal of Global Information Management (IF: 0.424) - Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SJR: 0.88) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SJR: 0.41) - VINE - The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (SJR: 0.24) - International Journal of Online Engineering (SJR: 0.21) - Int. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (SJR: 0.12) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 27, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: December 13, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: December 27, 2015. Camera-ready Submission: December 31, 2015 - WorldCIST'16 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist16/ From rhill at asis.org Mon Nov 23 07:31:49 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:31:49 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Associate Professorship in Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <081601d125ea$ed668930$c8339b90$@asis.org> A position as Associate Professor in Communication and IT is available at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, beginning August 1, 2016. The candidate should have a clear research profile within Communication and IT as well as excellent teaching qualifications within programmes in communication and it. Research and teaching in communication and IT at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication is interdisciplinary, encompassing a range of humanistic and social-scientific approaches to theoretical and empirical studies of the intersection between human communication and digital computing. Documented research experience with the social and cultural implications of digital infrastructures will be considered an advantage in assessing applicants? qualifications. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2016. More information at: http://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=787505 ------------------------------------- Jens-Erik Mai Professor University of Copenhagen Information Studies jemai at hum.ku.dk http://jenserikmai.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jawalsh at indiana.edu Mon Nov 23 16:53:30 2015 From: jawalsh at indiana.edu (Walsh, John Anthony) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:53:30 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Asst/Assoc/Full Professor, Information and Library Science, Indiana U. Bloomington Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. December 1st deadline approaching? Position Details Title: Asst/ Assoc/ Full Professor Department: Information and Library Science Expected start date: 08/01/2016 Position summary: The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2016 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas solicited with preference for data curation, CSCW, digital libraries, information policy, digital youth, documentation, metadata, and the social web). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Duties include teaching, research, and service. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. U.S. News & World Report?ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally in its most recent rankings. The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of more than 100 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,500 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas in ILS include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; data curation; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; human computer interaction; science studies; semantic web; social informatics; CSCW; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master?s degrees in Information Science, Library Science, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have an established record (for senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence (for junior level) in research and teaching, and a Ph.D. in Information Science or a related field or (for junior level) expected before 8/2016. Interested candidates?should submit?their?application at? http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/1658 Application should include curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level).? Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Prof. Noriko Hara, nhara at indiana.edu or to Faculty Search, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Herman B. Wells Library LI011, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2015. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu) or to members of the search committee: Noriko Hara (nhara at indiana.edu), Stasa Milojevic (smilojev at indiana.edu, Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu), John Walsh (jawalsh at indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. IU Bloomington is vitally interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. --- | John A. Walsh | Associate Professor of Information Science, School of Informatics & Computing | Editor, The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative | Technical Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly | Indiana University, 1320 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 | Web: Voice: +1-812-856-0707? From agruzd at gmail.com Mon Nov 23 18:34:00 2015 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:34:00 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] 2016 Visiting Scholar Program - Ryerson University Social Media Lab - Toronto, Canada Message-ID: <02b601d12647$6eb84a80$4c28df80$@gmail.com> ***Apologies for cross-posting*** The Social Media Lab, part of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) invites academic researchers at any stage of their career and senior PhD candidates for a short-term (1-4 month) research visit. This year's deadline is fast approaching - December 15. The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary community of scholars who eagerly address issues surrounding the impact and implications of social media on society. With two funded and two self-funded openings for the program, visiting scholars can further their own research at our Lab, as well as develop and complete a collaborative research project with members of the Lab. During the program, visiting scholars will meet and interact with the Social Media Lab's academic community, both at Ryerson University, in Toronto, and beyond, through our international network of expert collaborators. They will also have the chance to explore Toronto - Canada's largest and most multicultural city. For more information and how to apply, please visit http://socialmedialab.ca/visit/ -- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University Mailing Address: 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3 Office: TRS 2-071 (8th floor) Email: gruzd at ryerson.ca Twitter: @gruzd Tel: 416-979-5000 ext. 7937 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Sun Nov 22 10:20:13 2015 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:20:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Indiana University Ph.D. Program in Information Science Accepting Applications by January 15th, 2016 Message-ID: <124234B5-9DB2-4FD4-B517-48F9B80B2B07@indiana.edu> Indiana University Ph.D. Program in Information Science Accepting Applications by January 15th, 2016 Apply Today! Funding packages with $46,000 per year stipends are available for top candidates. We welcome applications to our doctoral program at Indiana University Bloomington. Our Ph.D. in Information Science celebrates over 50 years and over 185 graduates. Our doctoral program is one of the longest continuously running Information Science programs in the U.S. and has one of the highest number of graduates, including distinguished and productive professors, deans of schools and libraries, directors of doctoral programs, editors of journals, excellent educators, and presidents of national professional associations. Our Ph.D. in Information Science trains the next generation of information scientists?the people who will advance the knowledge in this field. Doctoral students are advised by faculty that are engaged in cutting-edge research areas such as: * ? Social Informatics * ? Computer-Mediated Communication * ? Crowd Sourcing * ? Social Media * ? Online Communities * ? Information Visualization * ? Scientometrics * ? Data Science * ? Digital Curation * ? Scholarly Communication * ? Digital Humanities * ? Semantic Web & Linked Data * ? Complex Network Analysis * ? Data & Text Mining * ? Information Retrieval Our students can benefit from our active community of scholars that includes these Research Centers: * ? Catapult Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Analysis * ? Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center * ? Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) * ? Web Science Lab Located in the university town of Bloomington, Indiana, the program is supported by both an extensive research infrastructure and a beautiful setting. The technology and library resources at IU are stellar while the abundance of and access to nature, the arts, and international cuisine in Bloomington enrich out-of-class hours. Interested in our doctoral program? Have questions? Contact: Dr. Ying Ding, ILS Ph.D. Program Director at dingying at indiana.edu ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hong1.cui at gmail.com Wed Nov 25 11:21:23 2015 From: hong1.cui at gmail.com (Hong cui) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:21:23 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Ph.D student positions open at the School of Information, University of Arizona Message-ID: Please feel free to distribute the following announcement. Dear all, The University of Arizona School of Information welcomes applicants for the Ph.D in Information program. Accepted students will be assured of at least four years of funding, covered tuition, and opportunities for additional support. The School of Information is broadly interdisciplinary, but for this coming year?s doctoral student cohort, particular preference will be given to applicants with research interest in machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, text retrieval, data science, computational art, mobile computing, mediated interaction, social networks, or computational social science. Preferred areas of interest include eHealth, astronomy, eCommerce, and the environment. At the University of Arizona and in the School of Information, we value our inclusive climate because we know that diversity in experiences and perspectives is vital to advancing innovation, critical thinking, solving complex problems, and creating an inclusive academic community. We translate these values into action by seeking a wide range of applicants to include those from underrepresented populations. For information on the University of Arizona?s School of Information, see: http://si.arizona.edu/. For a profile of the School of Information at Arizona, see: http://si.arizona.edu/school-profile. For PhD application information, see: http://si.arizona.edu/phd-information. With questions about research or doctoral work in the School, please contact the School?s Director of Graduate Studies: Dr. Hong Cui, hongcui at email.arizona.edu. With quick questions about the applicant process or application materials, feel free to reach out to our administrative support team through Geraldine Fragoso: gfragoso at email.arizona.edu. -- Hong Cui, Ph.D Associate Professor, Information Technology Director of Graduate Studies School of Information University of Arizona ETC Bi-Weekly Hangout Member of Plazi.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Max.Wilson at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Nov 25 16:42:43 2015 From: Max.Wilson at nottingham.ac.uk (Max Wilson) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:42:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Google-sponsored PhD Studentship - Confusing Search Message-ID: The following opportunities are available at the University of Nottingham, with Max L. Wilson Google-sponsored PhD studentship on Information Behaviour - focused on information and searching behaviour during confusing/complex search tasks. - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#googlephd Google-sponsored Research Internships - 3-month collaboration opportunity - also focused on information and searching behaviour during confusing/complex search tasks. - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#googleintern 2yr Postdoc - Search User Interfaces for Music - aimed at designing new interactions for browsing/filtering music datasets - PhD background in user study evaluations required - ideal for researchers with good web coding skills - good if like music theory, but not required - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#fastpostdoc - part of the EPSRC FAST Grant Other PhD opportunities at University of Nottingham - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#phds Max L. Wilson is an Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Seeking, in the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research lies in the interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Information Seeking. - http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/ The MRL was established in 1999, and is an interdisciplinary group exploring the potential of ubiquitous, mobile and interactive technologies to shape everyday life. The MRL was at the forefront of establishing the ?18.3M Horizon Digital Economy Institute and Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, and has a current grant portfolio exceeding ?10m, with multiple grants from the European Commission, EPSRC and other organisations and industry partners. The MRL has collaborated with and received research funding from a variety of industrial partners including the BBC, Google, Microsoft Research, Unilever, BAE, GE Aviation, Nokia, BT, Sony, and Scottish Power. - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/mixedrealitylab/index.aspx The School of Computer Science was established 30 years ago and is firmly established as a leading centre for Computer Science research. Our world-leading research tackles difficult real-world problems that often have high impact on industry, commerce and the public. It involves a shared ethos of "computing in the world" in which fundamental advances in Computer Science are connected to knowledge and methods from other disciplines to enable deep collaborations with research users in diverse sectors. - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/research/researchintro.aspx The FAST grant is a five-year EPSRC collaboration between Nottingham, QMUL, and Oxford, which brings the very latest technologies to bear on the entire recorded music industry, end-to-end, producer to consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. - http://www.semanticaudio.ac.uk/ best Max Dr Max L. Wilson ----------------------- Asst. Professor in HCI & Info. 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Workshop at CHIIR 2016 (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) http://sigir.org/chiir2016/ March 17, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Important dates Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 January 8, 2016 Notification: December 15, 2015 January 22, 2016 Workshop date: March 17, 2016 Conference dates: March 13-17, 2016 Workshop overview For two decades, research has sought to understand serendipity and how it may be facilitated in digital environments such as information visualization systems, search systems, and social media. The motivation for investigating serendipity comes from its association with positive outcomes that range from personal benefits to global rewards. To date, research has made significant headway in defining and mapping the process of serendipity and new tools are emerging to support it. But we lack robust methods of evaluating new or enhanced features, functions, and tools. The goal of the Workshop is to examine how we balance the tension between diversity and novelty in designing digital environments and subsequently how we evaluate the ?serendipitousness? of those environments. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (e.g., information science, HCI, digital humanities, cognitive science) and research perspectives to help us solve this wicked problem. Keynote ?Is There Anything Serendipity Research Can Learn from Creativity Research?? John Gero, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University John Gero is the author or editor of over 50 books and more than 650 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design cognition, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland. http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/ How to participate Submit a 2-page paper using the ACM SIG Proceedings Template about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to serendipity, either published, or work in progress. Possible themes for these papers may include, but are not limited to: Evaluating whether or how digital environments enable serendipity 1. Use of qualitative methods such as interviews and think-aloud to evaluate user perceptions 2. Modifications to quantitative evaluation methods such as controlled experiments and log file analyses to test designs 3. Identification of factors other than the environment (e.g., context, individual differences, strategies, emotions, attitudes) that influence serendipity that should be taken into consideration during evaluation Designing elements and functions in digital environments so that serendipity is facilitated 1. Application of theory and models in the design (or evaluation) of affordances related to serendipity 2. Design of serendipitous digital environments (e.g., information visualization systems, recommender systems, digital libraries, search engines) Authors of selected papers will be asked to A) give ?lightning talks? on their work through a 5-minute presentation; or B) participate in a ?show and tell event? to demonstrate their project or prototype. In addition, just prior to and during the workshop we will be conducting a whirlwind Delphi study to identify essential and novel measures for assessing ?serendipitousness.? The results of the group effort will be discussed at the Workshop to highlight pertinent measures. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop. **Submissions and inquiries can be sent to Lori McCay-Peet [mccay at dal.ca]** Workshop website: http://sociodigital.net/2015/11/03/cfp-seade/ Conference Organizers Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, Canada Elaine G. Toms, The University of Sheffield, UK Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Program Committee Members Naresh Argawal, Simmons College, USA Jamshid Beheshti, McGill University, Canada Lennart Bj?rneborn, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri, USA Jannica Heinstr?m, ?bo Akademi University, Finland Christoph Lutz, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Stephann Makri, City University London, UK Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario, Canada Xu Sun, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China Simon Wakeling, University of Sheffield, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kamps at uva.nl Mon Nov 30 09:40:06 2015 From: kamps at uva.nl (Jaap Kamps) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:40:06 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: WSDM'16 WS on Search and Exploration of X-rated Information: Deadline Nov 30 Message-ID: <565C5FC6.6070007@uva.nl> CALL FOR PAPERS WSDM 2016 Workshop: Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI 2016) website: http://sexi2016.org/ email: info at sexi2016.org Submissions due: November 30, 2015 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Adult content is pervasive on the web, has been a driving factor in the adoption of the Internet medium, and is responsible for a significant fraction of traffic and revenues, yet rarely attracts the attention of researchers. This half-day workshop on Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information at the 2016 WSDM conference will discuss questions for information access tasks and search behavior related to adult content. While the scope of the workshop remains broad, we will devote special attention to the privacy and security issues with respect to adult content. The recent release of the personal data belonging to customers of the adult dating site Ashley Madison provides a timely context for the focus on privacy and security (*). The data collected by adult sites, derived from both visitors to the site and providers of content, is arguably more sensitive than other commercial data, because of the controversial nature of the sites themselves. (*) SUBMISSION FORMAT We solicit short (2-page) position papers, and longer (4-page) research papers. Position papers identify an issue or problem related to adult information access, and outline a possible resolution or approach to address an issue. Research papers present academic research in areas within the scope of the workshop. Papers should not include examples of adult content, and papers containing adult content will be rejected without review. If in doubt, assume it is adult content. Paper should be submitted using the ACM Proceedings templates to EasyChair . IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: November 30, 2015 (before midnight, AoE time zone) Notification: December 13, 2015 Workshop: February 22, 2016 ORGANIZERS Vanessa Murdock Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai & KTH Stockholm From dianek at email.unc.edu Mon Nov 30 10:18:57 2015 From: dianek at email.unc.edu (Kelly, Diane) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:18:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Last Call: Applicants for UNC PhD Program Message-ID: PhD Opportunities at University of North Carolina The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applicants to our PhD program for start in August 2016. Our doctoral program provides intensive, highly flexible and customizable preparation for a range of careers including those in academia and research centers. The program consists of a combination of coursework and independent and guided research in the areas of information interaction, organization and search; archival science and digital curation; health informatics and 21st century libraries. For those interested in pursuing faculty positions, we offer extensive training in teaching and curriculum development. We expect to provide 4 years of funding (tuition, stipend and health insurance) to all PhD students. The application period is open only until December 15. For more information about our PhD Program and the application process see: http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/phd http://sils.unc.edu/programs/graduate/admissions Questions? Email Professor Barbara Wildemuth, Doctoral Program Director, at wildemuth at unc.edu. From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Mon Nov 30 15:31:10 2015 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:31:10 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: RDAP16 - Atlanta, May 4-7 - Call for Participation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EFAF7D5C6F@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> [forwarded on behalf of RDAP16 chairs] Speak, Show, and Share at RDAP16: Call for Proposals (with apologies for cross-posting) Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2016 May 4-7, 2016 Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA RDAP16, the seventh annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, is accepting proposals (max. 300 words) for two panels, interactive posters, and lightning talks. Themes for RDAP16 were selected by this year's planning committee with input from previous years' attendees and RDAP community members. Important Dates December 18, 2015 Panel Presentations Submissions Due January 15, 2016 Interactive Posters and Lightning Talks Submissions Due May 4-7, 2016 RDAP16 Conference and Workshops Panel Presentations, Interactive Posters, and Lightning Talks The RDAP Summit Program Committee solicits proposals for panel sessions (other panels are being curated by members of the program committee), posters, and (five minute) lightning talks on themes including, but not limited to, the following: * Policies concerning research data in your intuition * Partnership or obstacles between units involved with building or expanding research data services * Institutional responses to funding agencies' policies on research data * Tools developed and/or implemented for data curation and management * Data management and curation for humanities * Citations and altmetrics for research data * Institutional/data repositories * Data management education and training Panel sessions are 90-minute moderated discussions on a specific topic of interest. A submission should include: * A Panel Session Leader with a commitment to arrange the specific topic of interest; * 3-5 Panel Session Speakers with a commitment to join in under the specific topic. Submit your 300 word (maximum) summary or abstract, along with any supplementary documentation, for Panel Presentations by December 18, 2015. Submissions for Interactive Posters and (five minute) Lightning Talks are due January 15, 2016. Submit your proposals for RDAP16 here: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits' programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. Keep up with RDAP news by joining our Listserv, following us on Twitter or visiting our Facebook page. For questions, contact either of the RDAP16 program chairs, Lisa Zilinski at ldz at cmu.edu and Kate Dillon at katherine.dillon at sjsu.edu. We look forward to hearing from you! ---------------------------------- Lisa Zilinski Kate Dillon RDAP16 Program Co-Chairs Lisa Zilinski Research Data Specialist Libraries Faculty Carnegie Mellon University 412.268.6107 ldz at cmu.edu orcid.org/0000-0003-2967-9697 www.lisazilinski.com The best time to call me is email -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: